Searching apparatus
AssigneeAdknowledge, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Ishag, Sebastian Luke Bishop, Nicholas Desmond James Bancroft Cooke, Judd Harcombe
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Abstract
A search engine at a service provider is configured to identify commercial suppliers in response to a keyword specified by a user. Keywords are received and searches are performed on an index database to identify displayable text items. Images are stored in the form of commercially relevant graphical images such as logos. A logo is linked to each item of displayable text and an output list is produced in which each text item includes a displayable graphical image. The system may store different image formats to allow the graphical images to be displayed on a variety of platforms.
Claims1
A computerized system for identifying commercial suppliers in response to a user search, comprising:
- an image store for storing graphical images associated with commercial suppliers;
- a storage media for storing textual items associated with at least one graphical image in the image store;
- and,
- a processor in communication with the image store and the storage media, the processor programmed to perform steps comprising:
- populating the image store with graphical images separate from the textual items for the storage media;
- receiving a keyword and associating the keyword with at least one textual item;
- linking the at least one textual item to at least one of the graphical images;
- and,
- providing a displayable output list of the textual items corresponding to the received keyword and the displayable graphical images linked thereto, such that when the displayable output list is displayed, a user may readily identify a desired commercial supplier from the displayable graphical images in the displayable output list.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.