US 8,285,722 B2Granted

Content discovery using gateway browsing data

AssigneeUnwired Planet, LLC

InventorsEdward Moore, Martin Higham, Robert Finean, Sean MacNeill

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Abstract

An internet browsing gateway is utilized to locate mobile web content and improve search capabilities for wireless devices. Mobile browsing data is logged as web pages are requested from and returned to wireless devices associated with the same wireless network. An index server continually updates search indexes in real time as users request searches and search results are returned. As a result, the mobile content that is discovered becomes more relevant for users of the same wireless network or mobile carrier. In other words, the search results are more localized in accordance with the location of the wireless network that services the mobile users within a specific geographic region. When a web search is requested from a wireless device, the index server queries the search indexes. The search results are ranked using a search algorithm that incorporates the browsing data to improve the accuracy and relevance of searches.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A method for discovering wireless-compatible web content from web pages that have been indexed in accordance with an indexing process, the indexing process comprising:

retrieving web pages in response to web page requests received from requesting wireless devices, wherein at least some of the retrieved web pages include wireless-compatible content, the requesting wireless devices being associated with a same wireless network;
storing usage data associated with each of the retrieved web pages;
indexing the retrieved web pages based on the associated usage data, wherein the indexed web pages include wireless-compatible content;
the method further comprising:
identifying indexed web pages in response to receiving search terms from a searching wireless device, wherein the identified web pages correspond to the received search terms;
generating a ranking value for each identified web page, wherein the ranking value is generated based on the stored usage data associated with the corresponding retrieved web page;
and
refining each generated ranking value, said refining comprising:
storing a location of the searching wireless device as usage data associated with each identified web page;
in the event that the location of the searching wireless device is within a region served by the wireless network, increasing the ranking value;
and
in the event that the location of the searching wireless device is not within a region served by the wireless network, decreasing the ranking value;
the method further comprising ranking the identified web pages based on the corresponding refined ranking values.

10 more elements

A system for discovering mobile-compatible web content, the system comprising:

a browsing gateway comprising a data collector, wherein the data collector is configured to:
retrieve web pages in response to web page requests received from requesting wireless devices, wherein at least some of the retrieved web pages include wireless-compatible content, the requesting wireless devices being associated with a same wireless network, and
store usage data associated with each of the retrieved web pages;
and
a search engine comprising:
a web crawler configured to receive the usage data from the data collector, wherein the received usage data corresponds to the retrieved web pages that include wireless-compatible content;
and
an index server configured to index the retrieved web pages based on the associated usage data, wherein the indexed web pages include wireless-compatible content,
wherein the index server is further configured to:
identify indexed web pages in response to receiving search terms from a searching wireless device, wherein the identified web pages correspond to the received search terms;
generate a ranking value for each identified web page, wherein the ranking value is generated based on usage data associated with the corresponding retrieved web page:
refine each generated ranking value by:
storing a location of the searching wireless device as usage data associated with each identified web page;
in the event that the location of the searching wireless device is within a region served by the wireless network, increasing the ranking value;
in the event that the location of the searching wireless device is not within a region served by the wireless network, decreasing the ranking value;
use the refined ranking to rank the identified web pages;
and
return the ranked web pages to the searching warless device.

15 more elements

A system for discovering wireless-compatible web content, the apparatus being capable of communication and data exchange over a wireless communication network, the apparatus comprising:

a system element in communication with an element of the wireless communication network;
and
a processor configured to execute a process to discover wireless-compatible web content in response to a search request from a mobile device, whereby the wireless-compatible web content is provided to the element of the wireless communication network for access by the mobile device, the process comprising:
retrieving web pages in response to web page requests received from requesting wireless devices, wherein at least some of the retrieved web pages include wireless-compatible content, the requesting wireless devices being associated with the wireless communication network;
storing usage data associated with each of the retrieved web pages, wherein the usage data is stored in a data storage medium;
indexing the retrieved web pages based on the associated usage data, wherein the indexed web pages include wireless-compatible content;
identifying indexed web pages in response to receiving search terms from the mobile device, wherein the identified web pages correspond to the received search terms;
generating a ranking value for each identified web page, wherein the ranking value is generated by processing the stored usage data associated with the corresponding retrieved web page, wherein the usage data is processed after being retrieved from the data storage medium;
refining each generated ranking value, said refining comprising:
storing a location of the searching wireless device as usage data associated with each identified web page;
in the event that the location of the mobile device that sent the search terms is within a region served by the wireless communication network, increasing the ranking value;
and
in the event that the location of the mobile device that sent the search terms is not within a region served by the wireless communication network, decreasing the ranking value;
ranking the identified web pages based on the corresponding refined ranking values;
and
outputting the ranked web pages to the mobile device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/512,962Filed 30 Jul 2009 · us provisional application
Priority: 30 Jul 2008
Published: US 2010/0138423 A13 Jun 2010
Granted: 9 Oct 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
G06F
Computing and data processing