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Method, device, and system for analyzing and ranking web-accessible data targets

AssigneeJemstep, Inc.

InventorsMichael Blumenthal, Matthew Rennie

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Abstract

A method of locating a relevant product belonging to a category of related products sharing predetermined product attributes is provided. At a client computer, a search topic associated with the category arrives from a user along with user-profile data like demographic, geographic, and situational data. A server locates at information locations some related products within the category, each having the pre-determined set of product attributes having associated content. For each product attribute, the content associated therewith in one of the located products is compared against content associated with the product attribute in each other located product and is assigned a relative score based on the comparison. The shared set of product attributes is prioritized based in part upon relevance of a product attribute to user profile data and the located products are ranked based on the prioritizing and the score of content associated with the product attributes.

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Dependent claims

A method of locating a relevant product via a computer network, the relevant product belonging to a category of related products sharing a pre-determined set of product attributes associated therewith, the method comprising:

at a client computer:
receiving a search topic from a user, the search topic being associated with the category of related products;
receiving, from the user, filter data based upon user preferences;
and
receiving user profile data including at least one of demographic, geographic, and situational data specific to the user;
with a server:
locating at one or more information locations at least two of the related products within the category of related products associated with the search topic, each of the at least two related products located having the pre-determined set of product attributes associated therewith, each product attribute having content associated therewith;
with at least one of the client computer and the server:
filtering the at least two related products to exclude at least one of the related products based upon the filter data and, thereby, create a filtered set of related products;
for each product attribute of the shared set of product attributes:
comparing the content associated with the product attribute in one of the filtered set of related products against content associated with the product attribute in each of the other located products of the filtered set of located products;
and
assigning a relative score to the content associated with the product attribute in each of the filtered set of related products based upon the comparison;
prioritizing the shared set of product attributes based at least in part upon a relevance of at least one product attribute to the user profile data;
and
ranking the filtered set of related products based upon the prioritizing of the product attributes and the score of the content associated with the product attributes.

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A system for locating a relevant product belonging to a category of related products sharing a pre-determined set of product attributes associated therewith, the system comprising:

a client computer operable to:
receive a search topic from a user, the search topic being associated with the category of related products to which the relevant product belongs;
receive, from the user, filter data based upon user preferences;
and
receive user profile data including at least one of demographic, geographic, and situational data specific to the user;
a server communicatively coupled to the client computer and operable to locate at one or more information locations at least two of the related products within the category of related products associated with the search topic, each of the at least two related products located having the pre-determined set of product attributes associated therewith, each product attribute having content associated therewith;
wherein, at least one of the client computer and the server is operable:
to filter the at least two related products to exclude at least one of the related products based upon the filter data and, thereby, create a filtered set of related products;
for each product attribute of the shared set of product attributes:
to compare the content associated with the product attribute in one of the filtered set of related products against content associated with the product attribute in each of the other located products of the filtered set of located products;
and
to assign a relative score to the content associated with the product attribute in each of the filtered set of related products based upon the comparison;
prioritize the shared set of product attributes based at least in part upon a relevance of at least one product attribute to the user profile data;
and
rank the filtered set of related products based upon the prioritizing of the product attributes and the score of the content associated with the product attributes.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/487,912Filed 4 Jun 2012 · division
Priority: 27 Jun 2007
Published: US 2013/0060663 A17 Mar 2013
Granted: 10 Jun 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

G06Q 30/0631
Electronic shopping [e-shopping]: recommending goods or services
G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F 16/953
Retrieval from the web: querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines
G06Q 30/0601
Buying, selling or leasing transactions: electronic shopping [e-shopping]

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Application11/769,138Parent of this division · filed 27 Jun 2007
Application13/280,739Parent of this division · filed 25 Oct 2011
US 2013/0060663 A1Pre-grant publication · published 7 Mar 2013
US 8,219,456 B2Parent of this division
US 8,073,741 B2Parent of this division
US 2009/0006216 A1Published application
US 2012/0041849 A1Published application
US 8,751,322 B2This patent

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