US 2006/0041553 A1 · Method and apparatus for responding to end-user request for information-ranking

Abstract

The present invention relates to an advanced search engine. The advanced search engine may include a client component for monitoring an end-user's browsing activity, a remote server (may comprise one or more computers) for storing and processing data received from the client component, and a module that process web pages and serves search results to end-users. The advanced search engine may collect web pages for keywords of proven interest, fetch web pages requested by end-users, generate snippets or abstracts of the web pages, eliminate duplicate web pages, rank the importance of the web pages, and provide relevant web pages or links to web pages in response to an end-user search request for information regarding one or more keywords, for example. Particular aspects of the present invention are described in the claims, specification and drawings.

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Dependent claims

A method of ranking, the method including:

receiving, from behavior watching modules operating on a multiplicity of users' computers, information regarding the users' search engine usage across a plurality of search engines, including at least
keywords (including phrases) submitted by particular users to the search engines,
links selected by the particular users from results returned by the search engines, and
at least one of dwell time or documents viewed by the particular users when following the selected links;
ranking links corresponding to a particular keyword, using, from the search engine usage information, both (user access rates) and at least one of ((the dwell time) or (the documents viewed));
and
storing the ranks in machine readable memory, available in response to a search invoked with the particular keyword.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

11/207,592Filed 19 Aug 2005

Priority

19 Aug 2004

Published

23 Feb 2006

Term ends

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Classification6 codes

G06F 16/9562
Using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]: bookmark management
Y10S 707/99933
Database or file accessing: query processing, i.e. searching
Y10S 707/99945
Object-oriented database structure: object-oriented database structure processing
Y10S 707/99948
Database schema or data structure: application of database or data structure, e.g. distributed, multimedia, or image

Family

Application60/603,140Us provisional application · filed 19 Aug 2004

Application11/015,583Continuation in part · filed 17 Dec 2004

Application60/637,684Us provisional application · filed 20 Dec 2004

Application60/660,798Us provisional application · filed 11 Mar 2005

Application60/662,680Us provisional application · filed 17 Mar 2005

Application11/207,592Continuation in part · filed 19 Aug 2005

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Method and apparatus for responding to end-user request for information-ranking

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