US 8,429,750 B2 · Search engine with webpage rating feedback based Internet search operation

Abstract

The system and methods herein provide feedback of a web page quality/legitimacy factor, various user interaction parameters, a contact address correlation factor, and an explicit web page rating on the reverse path from the client to the severs for Internet search operations. This operation facilitates to improve the quality of websites/web pages and enhances the efficiency of the Internet search operation. This reverse communication also allows for the automatic blockage of any illegitimate websites due to poor “contact address correlation factor” and poor “web page quality factor.” The rating of the websites is based on a computed number called “web page quality factor.” The “web page quality factor” is communicated in the reverse path of Internet search operation back to various whois servers, domain registrars, and web servers on the Internet to further improve quality. This facilitates the filtering of scammers, squatters, illegal/unwanted sites, etc., which have low “web page quality factor” rating resulting in high efficiency of search operations.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computing device comprising:

a malware report collection module that gathers and stores malware report data regarding Internet content from a plurality of client devices;
a user interaction parameter receiver module that gathers and stores user interaction parameter data associated with the Internet content during the browsing of the Internet content from the plurality of client devices;
a contact address correlation manager for computing a contact address correlation factor associated with the Internet content based on a correlation of an Internet content based first contact address with a company registrant database based second contact address;
a web page quality factor computing module for computing a web page quality factor associated with the Internet content, wherein the computed malware report data, user interaction parameters, contact address correlation factor, and web page quality factor are collectively feedback factors;
and
circuitry for storing and processing a plurality of the feedback factors to allow the computing device to manage the Internet content based on the web page quality factor associated with the Internet content.

3 more elements

A method performed by a search engine server with feedback search information capability, the method comprising:

receiving a search string, a search category, and a search region;
in response to the receiving, providing an initial list of search results to a user via a client device, at least one of the search results comprising a web page;
responding to a selection of the web page by retrieving user interaction parameters from the client device for the currently selected web page, wherein the selection involves clicking a link associated with the at least one of the search results to open the selected web page;
retrieving a malware report from the client device for at least the selected web page;
computing a contact address correlation factor based on a correlation between first contact address information from the selected web page and registered company registrant database based second contact address information over the Internet;
and
communicating one or more of the malware report, contact address correlation factor, and user interaction parameters to compute an Internet-based quality factor that is used to determine whether the at least one search result comprising the selected web page is included in a subsequent list of search results.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Search engine with webpage rating feedback based Internet search operation

Life of this patent

Search engine with webpage rating feedback based Internet search operation

Life of this patent

Abstract

Claims19