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20100125575 | SEARCHING DOCUMENT COLLECTIONS USING SEMANTIC ROLES OF KEYWORDS - Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating discovery of information of interest in a document collection. A document model is proposed in which important terms and their semantic roles are represented. This document model is then used to facilitate searching and/or browsing of the document collection. | 05-20-2010 |
20100161598 | METHOD, SYSTEM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR SHARING A RESULT RELATED TO CONTENTS - The present invention relates to a method, system, and computer-readable recoding medium for sharing a result related to contents. The method for sharing a result related to contents includes the steps of assigning different identifications (IDs) to communities in which the contents are primarily and/or secondarily posted if a user requests to directly scrap and post the contents of a server, and collectively providing a result created in relation to the contents belonging to communities having a common ID if the result is created in relation to the primarily and/or secondarily posted contents. | 06-24-2010 |
20110022592 | HANDHELD SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED COMPILING AND GENERATING ITEM LIST INFORMATION - A portable handheld electronic device provides automated compiling and categorizing of items and generating of categorized item lists in accordance with user-defined preferences including user-defined categories. The device includes a voice recognition processor for recognizing the received assortment data present in received voice data, a memory suitably adapted to store the assortment data, and categorizing means adapted for assigning respective predetermined and/or user-selected categories to the assortment data which may include an alphabetical or user-defined order, a sales outlet type or by name, a location within a sales outlet, a designation of one or more users associated with the device, or other categories. Generating means compile and synchronize selected categories, and generate the item list as an ordered list relative to one or more user-selected categories that is further displayed and printed at request of the user. | 01-27-2011 |
20110153602 | ADAPTIVE IMAGE BROWSING - A method for browsing a collection of multimedia assets on a soft-copy display comprising: receiving a collection of multimedia assets, each multimedia asset having a set of associated metadata; defining an interest criterion; using a processor to analyze the metadata associated with the multimedia assets and rank the multimedia assets according to the interest criterion; displaying a portion of the multimedia assets on the soft-copy display according to the ranking; interactively user selecting a displayed multimedia asset using a user interface; updating the interest criterion based on the selected multimedia asset; using a processor to determine an updated ranking of the multimedia assets according to the updated interest criterion; and displaying a portion of the multimedia assets on the soft-copy display according to the updated ranking. | 06-23-2011 |
20110191338 | Distributing Content - Contextually relevant pieces of alternative content, including advertisements, are selected for display with requested content based on documents or other second content sources that are referenced by or in the requested content. | 08-04-2011 |
20110231396 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PREDICTIVE CONTACTS - Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing predictive contacts. A system configured to practice the method first analyzes a communication history and a current usage context of a user. Based on the analysis, the system ranks contacts that the user is likely to communicate with from a list of contacts to yield ranked contacts. The system identifies a respective motive for ranking each contact, and presents a predictive list of contacts based at least in part on the ranked contacts, wherein each ranked contact in the predictive list of contacts includes at least part of the respective motive. The system can update the predictive list of contacts in real time as the current usage context changes. The communication history can include, for example, emails, instant messages, phone calls, video conferences, and calendar events. The motive can include a user interaction history with a particular contact. | 09-22-2011 |
20110270830 | System And Method For Providing Multi-Core And Multi-Level Topical Organization In Social Indexes - A computer-implemented method for providing multi-core and multi-level topical organization in social indexes is provided. A corpus of articles is accessed. Each article includes online textual materials. A finite state pattern is provided for a topic that filters the articles as candidate articles, which are potentially on-topic. Similarity-based representations for on-topic and off-topic core meanings of the topic are provided. An aggregate score for each of the candidate articles is determined using the similarity-based representations to indicate whether the candidate article is sufficiently on-topic. The candidate articles are presented ordered by their aggregate scores. In a further embodiment, a hierarchy of topics is provided and used to guide the presentation of articles from subtopics, with considerations of fairness of subtopic coverage, elimination of similarity-duplicates in articles, and article freshness. | 11-03-2011 |
20110307482 | SEARCH RESULT DRIVEN QUERY INTENT IDENTIFICATION - A system and method are provided for detecting entity information contained within search results. The detected entity information can be used to determine a category of entity as well as a specific entity within the search results. The entity information can be used to alter the style and/or format of the presented results based the detected entity category. | 12-15-2011 |
20110307483 | ENTITY DETECTION AND EXTRACTION FOR ENTITY CARDS - A system and method are provided for detecting entity information contained within search results. The detected entity information can be used to determine a category of entity as well as a specific entity within the search results. Entity information can be extracted from the documents associated with the search results. This information can be used as part of the information for an entity card, which can be displayed to a user in conjunction with and/or in place of the search results. | 12-15-2011 |
20110314012 | DETERMINING QUERY INTENT - A tree structure has a node associated with each category of a hierarchy of item categories. Child nodes of the tree are associated with sub-categories of the categories associated with parent nodes. Training data including received queries and indicators of a selected item category for each received query is combined with the tree structure by associating each query with the node corresponding to the selected category of the query. When a query is received, a classifier is applied to the nodes to generate a probability that the query is intended to match an item of the category associated with the node. The classifier is applied until the probability is below a threshold. One or more categories associated with the nodes that are closest to the intent of the received query are selected and indicators of items of those categories that match the received query are output. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314013 | RANKING ADVERTISEMENTS - While browsing, a user may interact with a wide variety of images. The user may upload and share images taken with a digital camera and/or search for image using a search engine. Because images are rich in contextual information, it may be advantageous to provide additional information, such as adjacent market advertising based upon matching advertisements with contextual information of the images. Accordingly, a query image may be used to retrieve a video frame set. The video frame set may be expanded with related video frames, which may comprise video frames correlating to adjacent markets. The expanded video frame set may be grouped into clusters of similar frames. The clusters may be used to rank advertisements based upon how similar the advertisements are to the clusters and/or video frames within the clusters. In this way, one or more ranked advertisements may be presented with the query image. | 12-22-2011 |
20120036126 | DATA CREATING APPARATUS AND DATA CREATING METHOD - A data creating apparatus extracts meta data about a topic from a document, the meta data including at least one linguistic expression about a behavior, a plurality of the linguistic expressions having a first modification relation. The data creating apparatus converts the linguistic expressions included in the behavioral meta data into each class, based on a behavior ontology that is expressed by a graph where the linguistic expression about a behavior is an instance and a concept of the instance is a class to create behavior map data that represents each of the classes converted and also representing a second modification relation among the classes as a link. | 02-09-2012 |
20120047134 | PREDICTIVE QUERY COMPLETION AND PREDICTIVE SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, interface instructions on a client device cause the client device to generate a search interface that includes a query input field and provide query characters input in the query input field to a search service as a first query suggestion request. The client device receives, in response the query suggestion request, first query suggestions and renders the first query suggestions according to and order. In response to the client device receiving first search results responsive to one of the first query suggestions and being received independent of user selection of a first query suggestion and independent of sending a completed query to the search service, the client device generates an indication in the interface that indicates the first query suggestion for which the search results are responsive. | 02-23-2012 |
20120047135 | Predictive Query Completion And Predictive Search Results - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests. | 02-23-2012 |
20120066220 | FILTERING SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED INFORMATION IN THE ABSENCE OF NEGATIVE DATA - Systems and methods are provided for ranking documents. In accordance with certain implementations, a user selects one or more documents for viewing from a set of documents. Documents selected by the user for viewing within a predetermined time period are maintained in a profile associated with the user. At least one positive word vector is generated using words contained in at least a segment of at least one of the documents stored in the profile. At least one negative word vector is generated using words contained in at least a segment of at least one of the documents that was not selected by the user for viewing. Document word vectors are generated for documents to be ranked. A vector space relationship analysis of the positive word vector, the negative word vector, and the document word vectors is performed. The documents are ranked based on the performed vector space relationship analysis. | 03-15-2012 |
20120109951 | Providing Search Results For Mobile Computing Devices - Search results are provided for mobile computing devices. Search results are retrieved based on a search term. Each of the search results is assigned to one or more categories. The categories and the assigned search results are provided to the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device is adapted to display each of the categories and a partial list of the search results for each of the categories. | 05-03-2012 |
20120143861 | PREDICTIVE CONVERSION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In one embodiment, a system and method of predicting sale transaction conversion rate of an item operates through a search of information in response to a query over a network. The system and method can includes discovering available information of the item of interest, extracting certain of the available information of the item, analyzing the certain information by comparing the information to other item information, weighting the information for the item in comparison to other items of the category, calculating a predictive score for the item of interest, and presenting the information of the item of interest ranked according to the predictive score as compared to other items of the category. | 06-07-2012 |
20120179673 | PROFITABILITY BASED RANKING OF SEARCH RESULTS FOR LODGING RESERVATIONS - Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. Determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, e.g., third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or intranet). Queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from suppliers, and responses may be used to generate results for the user. Results may include information and/or query status information. An electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more suppliers from which information was derived. | 07-12-2012 |
20120203778 | INFERRING SEARCH CATEGORY SYNONYMS - Systems and methods for inferring category synonyms from prior result data may include identifying prior query data including query information and category information relating to the prior result data; determining whether the query information is a synonym for the category information; and using the query information and the category information in subsequent search requests if it is determined that the query information is a synonym for the category information. | 08-09-2012 |
20120221566 | Ranking Search Results - Content items and other entities may be ranked or organized according to a relevance to a user. Relevance may take into consideration recency, proximity, popularity, air time (e.g., of television shows) and the like. In one example, the popularity and age of a movie may be used to determine a relevance ranking Popularity (i.e., entity rank) may be determined based on a variety of factors. In the movie example, popularity may be based on gross earnings, awards, nominations, votes and the like. According to one or more embodiments, entities may initially be categorized into relevance groupings based on popularity and/or other factors. Once categorized, the entities may be sorted within each grouping and later combined into a single ranked list. | 08-30-2012 |
20120221567 | DATA OBJECT LINKING AND BROWSING TOOL - Linking data objects, such as video objects, image objects, and audio objects, and displaying data associated with the data objects based upon the strength of the relationship between the data objects. Navigating a data collection of data objects by linking groups of data objects based upon related metadata is also disclosed. A user interface including the data associated with the grouped data objects facilitates browsing the data collection of data objects. | 08-30-2012 |
20120246156 | SEARCH RESULT SORT WEIGHTING - A user-specified weighting associated with a category can be received. The category can be one of a plurality of categories used to sort search results. The weighting can be applied to the category. Search results can be re-sorted based on the applied weighting to the category. | 09-27-2012 |
20120278317 | MINING OF USER EVENT DATA TO IDENTIFY USERS WITH COMMON INTEREST - A computer-implemented matching service matches users to other users, and/or to user communities, based at least in part on a computer analysis of event data reflective of user behaviors. The event data may, for example, evidence user affinities for particular items represented in an electronic catalog, such as book titles, music titles, movie titles, and/or other types of items that tend to reflect the traits of users. Event data reflective of other types of user actions, such as item-detail-page viewing events, browse node visits, search query submissions, and/or web browsing patterns may additionally or alternatively be considered. By taking such event data into consideration, the matching service reduces the burden on users to explicitly supply personal profile information, and reduces poor results caused by exaggerations and other inaccuracies in such profile information. | 11-01-2012 |
20120310932 | DETERMINING MATCHING DEGREES BETWEEN INFORMATION CATEGORIES AND DISPLAYED INFORMATION - Determining matching degrees of information categories and displayed information is disclosed. In some embodiments, recorded user selection action information with respect to displayed information is analyzed to determine which pieces of displayed information have been selected and which pieces were displayed but not selected. In some embodiments, a matching degree for an information category is determined based on the recorded user selection information with respect to displayed information. In some embodiments, based on this matching degree determined for the information category, it is determined whether the information to be displayed for the information category is to be adjusted for a subsequent event in which information of the information category is to be displayed. | 12-06-2012 |
20120317107 | Methods and Systems for Classifying Search Results to Determine Page Elements - This invention relates to determining page elements to display in response to a search. A method embodiment of this invention determines a page element based on a search result. The method includes: (1) determining a set of result classifications based on the search result, wherein each result classification includes a result category and a result score; and (2) determining the page element based on the set of result classifications. In this way, a classification is determined based on a search result and page elements are generated based on the classification. By using the search result, as opposed to just the query, page elements are generated that corresponds to a predominant interpretation of the user's query within the search results. As result, the page elements may, in most cases, accurately reflect the user's intent. | 12-13-2012 |
20120330949 | Search System Using Search Subdomain and Hints to Subdomains in Search Query Statements and Sponsored Results on a Subdomain-By-Subdomain Basis - A method and apparatus for generating search results including searching by subdomain and providing sponsored results by subdomain is provided. A search system according to embodiments of the present invention analyzes search queries to determine if they are to be routed to subdomains and presents results include sponsored hits sponsored on a subdomain by subdomain basis. | 12-27-2012 |
20130006979 | ENHANCING CLUSTER ANALYSIS USING DOCUMENT METADATA - A search query including search criteria can be received. The search criteria can be a text string. An enhanced search against an enhanced index can be executed. The enhanced index can be metadata associated with an enhanced cluster. The enhanced cluster can be a document cluster associated with the metadata. The enhanced cluster can be aggregated into a merged document. The merged document can be a document including the enhanced cluster contents. The ranking algorithm can be executed on the merged document to obtain a final ranking of content within the single document. | 01-03-2013 |
20130073544 | Method and System to Combine Keyword and Natural Language Search Results - A search query is received from a single input field of a user interface. A keyword search is performed based on the search query to generate keyword search results. A natural language search is performed of a frequently-asked question (FAQ) database based on the search query to generate FAQ search results. The keyword search results and the FAQ search results are combined in a display page. | 03-21-2013 |
20130091131 | META-MODEL DISTRIBUTED QUERY CLASSIFICATION - Systems and methods are provided for classifying a search query. A first group of query classifiers can be used to evaluate a query relative to various subject matter domains. The evaluation results from the first group of domain classifiers can then be used by a second group of meta-classifiers. The meta-classifiers are associated with meta-classifier categories that may correspond to a domain or that may correspond to a plurality of domains. The assigned meta-classifier category for a query can be used in any convenient manner, such as by triggering additional uses of the search query to match images or other alternative types of documents, or such as by allowing a subject matter domain to be assigned to the query. | 04-11-2013 |
20130103682 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED INFORMATION REUSE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for reusing information/knowledge. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for retrieving previously stored data to satisfy queries (e.g., jobs/tickets) for solutions to problems while maintaining privacy/security of the data as well as ensuring the quality of the results. In a typical embodiment, a query for a solution to a problem is received and details are extracted therefrom. Using the details, a search is performed on a set of data stored in at least one computer storage device. Based on the search, a set of results will be generated and classified into a set of categories. In any event, the quality of each of the set of results will be assessed based on the usefulness of the set of results. | 04-25-2013 |
20130110831 | DETERMINATION OF A DESIRED REPOSITORY | 05-02-2013 |
20130124516 | DATA DISPLAY SERVER, DATA DISPLAY METHOD AND PROGRAM THEREOF - The present invention relates to recommendation of items to a user for providing items more satisfying a user's request on the basis of new association. The present invention provides a data display server connected to a user terminal, which includes a posting database for storing posting data posted through the user terminal, a reference data base for storing reference data, relational metadata generating means which generates relational metadata making association between two pieces of reference data, and a relational database for storing the relational metadata. According to the arrangement, tight linking between reference data is made possible so that items more suitable for a user's preference can be recommended. | 05-16-2013 |
20130138642 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Grafting Cluster Spines In A Display - A system and method for generating cluster spines is provided. Clusters of documents are maintained. Each document is associated with a document concept that is formed from one or more terms extracted from that document. At least one cluster concept is determined for each cluster. The document concepts are ranked and at least one of the document concepts that is highly ranked is selected as the cluster concept. One or more spines are formed. Each spine includes two or more clusters that share at least one of the cluster concepts. The shared cluster concept is identified as a spine concept. One or more of the remaining clusters is assigned to the spines based on a similarity between the cluster concepts for the remaining clusters and the spine concepts for the formed spines. | 05-30-2013 |
20130144875 | SET EXPANSION PROCESSING DEVICE, SET EXPANSION PROCESSING METHOD, PROGRAM AND NON-TRANSITORY MEMORY MEDIUM - A receiving unit ( | 06-06-2013 |
20130144876 | INTELLIGENT RESULTS USING AN ASSISTANT - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 06-06-2013 |
20130173612 | Social Net Advocacy for Providing Categorical Analysis of User Generated Content - A method and system are disclosed for providing categorical analysis of user interactions within a social media environment. Social media interactions are monitored, collected, and processed to generate social network advocacy (SNA) analyses, which are in turn processed to categorize associated SNA data into predetermined SNA categories. Analysis operations are then performed on the resulting categorized SNA data to generate an SNA value for each of the SNA categories, along with associated statistical analyses, which are then used to provide the basis for proactive marketing response responses within one or more social media environments. | 07-04-2013 |
20130173613 | FLEXIBLE CONNECTOR FRAMEWORK FOR DATA FEED GENERATION - A data feed engine allows a user to create a data feed without protocol and/or formatting knowledge for the data source. The data feed engine dynamically selects a connector for any one of a variety of different types of data sources. The date feed engine can then build a search command with search parameters and a data source identity based on the automatically selected data source connector. The data feed engine publishes a reference to the generated data feed definition in a catalog of data feeds. A framework that utilizes such functionality allows creation of a mashup to with a combination of data feeds from different types of data sources. | 07-04-2013 |
20130179440 | IDENTIFYING INDIVIDUAL INTENTIONS AND DETERMINING RESPONSES TO INDIVIDUAL INTENTIONS - Systems and methods automatically determine responses to intention-focused content based on semantic analysis, natural language analysis, token analysis, social network analysis and influence ratings. The systems and methods identify relevant queries for product support, purchase or advocacy from multiple communications channels and further separate the high-value conversations and individuals from the low value conversations and individuals in an efficient manner. Described herein is a system and method to use the identification of important individuals and the context of their conversations to appropriately route content items and messages and subsequent responses in such a way as to allow an efficient interaction to occur. | 07-11-2013 |
20130191382 | SOURCING TERMS INTO A SEARCH ENGINE - Information may be presented to a user by receiving a selection of one or more terms passively displayed in a document, loading the terms to a search configuration, generating first results responsive to a user's predicted interest as expressed in the search configuration, and enabling display of the first results. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198177 | DISPLAYING COMPACT AND EXPANDED DATA ITEMS - A system sends a search query to a search engine and receives from the search engine, responsive to the search query, a document comprising a first search result item and a second search result item. The system visually renders a portion that includes less than an entirety of the first search result item and includes the second search result item, where the portion is visually rendered in a region of the document. The system receives a selection of the first search result item from a user and visually expands the region of the document to a size sufficient to render an entirety of the first search result item based on the selection. The system visually renders the entirety of the first search result item within the expanded region of the document. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204870 | SOURCING TERMS INTO A SEARCH ENGINE - Information may be presented to a user by receiving a selection of one or more terms passively displayed in a document, loading the terms to a search configuration, generating first results responsive to a user's predicted interest as expressed in the search configuration, and enabling display of the first results. | 08-08-2013 |
20130212097 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FINDING DESIRED RESULTS BY INCREMENTAL SEARCH USING AN AMBIGUOUS KEYPAD WITH THE INPUT CONTAINING ORTHOGRAPHIC AND/OR TYPOGRAPHIC ERRORS - A system for finding and presenting content items in response to keystrokes entered by a user on an input device having a known layout of overloaded keys selected from a set of key layouts. The system includes a database containing content items and terms characterizing the content items; input logic for receiving keystrokes from the user and building a string corresponding to incremental entries by the user, each item in the string having the set of alphanumeric symbols associated with a corresponding keystroke; mapping logic to map the string to the database to find the most likely content items corresponding to the incremental entries, the mapping logic operating in accordance with a defined error model corresponding to the known layout of overloaded keys; and presentation logic for ordering the most likely content items identified by the mapping logic and for presenting the most likely content items. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212098 | Computer-Implemented System And Method For Generating A Display Of Document Clusters - A computer-implemented system and method for generating a display of document clusters is described. Clusters of documents are presented in a multi-dimensional concept space. At least one document is selected from a collection of documents to be clusters. An angle θ of the document relative to a common origin of the multi-dimensional concept space is computed. The selected document is compared with each of the clusters. An angle σ from the common origin is determined for each cluster. A difference between the angle θ for the document and the angle σ for the cluster is determined. The difference is compared to the variance, and a new cluster is created when the difference exceeds the variance for all the clusters. | 08-15-2013 |
20130212099 | Searching Multiple Data Sources Using a Mobile Computing Device - A system and a method are disclosed for a search manager included in a mobile computing device. The search manager receives search text and a selection of one or more data sources and determines whether the selected data source include data matching, or similar to, the received search text. The search manager may dynamically modify a search database identifying data sources to be searched as data is received from a data source. Additionally, the search manager may communicate received search text to one or more applications stored by the mobile computing device, allowing an application to initiate an action using the search text. The search manager may also receive data from external sources identifying alternate search terms based on received search text. | 08-15-2013 |
20130246413 | PROVIDING INFORMATION PRIOR TO DOWNLOADING RESOURCES - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, and including a method for providing the search results. The method comprises receiving a query from a client device. The method further comprises responsive to the query, identifying, using one or more processors, search results including one or more resources. The method further comprises for at least one resource of search results, determining, using the one or more processors, a size of a data transfer required to access the one resource. The method further comprises providing the search results to the client device including providing a label associated with the one resource indicative of the size. | 09-19-2013 |
20130262458 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE AND PROGRAM - There is provided an information processing device including a theme setting unit that sets a theme to generate an item list including one or more items, an item list editing unit that adds an item designated for the theme by at least a user irrelevant to a setting of the theme to the item list in which the theme is set, and an output control unit that controls an output of the item list. | 10-03-2013 |
20130275425 | PROFITABILITY BASED RANKING OF SEACH RESULTS FOR LODGING RESERVATIONS - Method and apparatus for dynamic information connection search engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. Determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, e.g., third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers over a network coupling (e.g., the Internet and/or intranet). Queries may include one or more requests for information. One or more responses may be received from suppliers, and responses may be used to generate results for the user. Results may include information and/or query status information. An electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more suppliers from which information was derived. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282712 | COMBINED SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION AND VISUAL ATTRIBUTE SEARCH - An image search method includes receiving a first query, the first query providing a first image constraint. A first search of a plurality of images is performed, responsive to the first query, to identify a first set of images satisfying the first constraint. A first search result, which includes the first set of images identified as satisfying the first constraint, is presented. A second query is received, the second query providing a second image constraint with reference to a first image of the first set of images. A second search of the plurality of images is performed, responsive to the second query, to identify a second set of images that satisfy the second constraint. A second search result, which includes the second set of images identified as satisfying the second constraint, is presented. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290324 | CATEGORIZING AND RANKING TRAVEL-RELATED DATABASE QUERY RESULTS - Methods, systems, and computer program products for processing database query results. Database query results are retrieved from a database. The database query results are classified according to multiple, distinct categories and at least one of the database query results for each of the multiple categories is stored as a featured result and then provided to a client device upon receipt of a travel search request from an end user of the client device. | 10-31-2013 |
20130290325 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON NETWORK DIVERSITIES - A method and system for evaluating the reputation of a member of a social networking system is disclosed. Consistent with an embodiment of the invention, one or more attributes associated with a social networking profile of a member of a social network are analyzed. Based on the analysis, a ranking, rating or score is assigned to a particular category of reputation. When requested, the ranking, rating or score is displayed to a user of the social network. | 10-31-2013 |
20140006394 | CATEGORIZING CONTENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140040255 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ACCESS TO RESTRICTED RESOURCES - A method and system of providing a search result to a user based on information indicated in a restricted access resource is described. A search system utilizing the assistance of human searchers or guides may obtain a search result using information included in a restricted resource. Access to a restricted resource is granted to guides based on access information provided to the search service. A guide may access information indicated in a restricted resource in order to obtain a search result. A search result obtained based on information indicated in a restricted resource may be returned to a user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140052719 | PRESENTING INFORMATION FOR CONTAINERS IN SEARCH RESULTS - Methods and systems to build containers of uncategorized items are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems access a search query received by a network-based publication system, identify a container of uncategorized items having a title that satisfies the search query, and return a result for the search query that is associated with the identified container. | 02-20-2014 |
20140074831 | DETERMINATION OF CATEGORY INFORMATION USING MULTIPLE STAGES - Providing category information includes: receiving a plurality of search key word sets that were previously input by a plurality of users; obtaining category information corresponding to the plurality of search key word sets; segmenting each of the plurality of search key word sets into search key word units; combining the search key word units into a plurality of search key word unit groups that correspond to a plurality of stages; based at least in part on the category information, determining category information that specifically corresponds to the plurality of search key word unit groups; and based at least in part on category information, establishing a plurality of search key word tables corresponding to the plurality of stages. | 03-13-2014 |
20140089305 | CLASSIFYING SEARCH RESULTS TO DETERMINE PAGE ELEMENTS - This invention relates to determining page elements to display in response to a search. A method embodiment of this invention determines a page element based on a search result. The method includes: (1) determining a set of result classifications based on the search result, wherein each result classification includes a result category and a result score; and (2) determining the page element based on the set of result classifications. In this way, a classification is determined based on a search result and page elements are generated based on the classification. By using the search result, as opposed to just the query, page elements are generated that corresponds to a predominant interpretation of the user's query within the search results. As result, the page elements may, in most cases, accurately reflect the user's intent. | 03-27-2014 |
20140089306 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRIORITIZING ONLINE RELATIONSHIPS - Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to generating a set of priority contacts based on their strength of relationship with a user. Using the techniques introduced herein, contacts of users and communications from those contacts can be aggregated across multiple online accounts into a single set of communications in a centralized queue. The communications can then be analyzed to determine the category and frequency of the communications and weights can be assigned to each different category of communication based on a set of rules adapted to show the level of affinity of a particular contact with the user (and vice versa). An affinity score is calculated for each of the user's contacts based on adding up the total weight and frequency of communications with the user and a predetermined number of contacts having the highest affinity score can be identified as priority contacts. The affinity score can then be used to filter the news feed in a user interface display so that only communications from priority contacts are displayed in the news feed and other contacts are filtered out. | 03-27-2014 |
20140108393 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CHANGES IN TRENDING TOPICS TO A USER - A system and method for displaying changes in trending topics to a user in a network environment is described. The method includes retrieving a first group of content items, generating a first group of topics for the first group of content items, and displaying a first display to the user. The method further includes retrieving a second group of content items, generating a second group of topics for the second group of content items and zero or more first content items from the first group of content items, determining a similarity or dissimilarity between a second topic from the second group of topics and a first topic from the first group of topics, and displaying a second display which includes the result of determining a similarity or dissimilarity. | 04-17-2014 |
20140122471 | ORGANIZING NETWORK-STORED CONTENT ITEMS INTO SHARED GROUPS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for adding users to groups of content items organized into events based on a common attribute. An example system configured to practice the method can receive, from a client device, content items uploaded to a synced online content management system, wherein the content items are associated with an account of a first user. The system can cluster at least some of the content items as an event, wherein the event is associated with a common attribute, and identify a second user satisfying a minimum similarity threshold for the event based on the common attribute. The system can provide a suggestion to share the event with the second user. Upon receiving a confirmation of the suggestion, the system can make content items clustered in the event available to the second user. | 05-01-2014 |
20140156655 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD AND NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM - An information processing apparatus includes the following elements. A selector selects, as a first item, an item disposed within a QFD chart. A first calculator calculates a correlation score between the first item and an item associated with an adjacent axis. A first extracting unit compares the correlation score with a predetermined value and extracts a second item related to the first item. A second calculator calculates a correlation score between the second item and an item associated with an adjacent axis and determines the calculated correlation score between the item associated with the adjacent axis and the first item. A second extracting unit compares the correlation score with a predetermined value and extracts a third item related to the first item. A display unit displays the first item, the second item, and the third item in a mode different from a mode of the other items. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164371 | EXTRACTION OF MEDIA PORTIONS IN ASSOCIATION WITH CORRELATED INPUT - A multimedia message is generated with a set of media content portions that corresponds to a set of inputs. Media content portions are concatenated together to generate a continuous stream of media extracted from different media content. The media content portions are extracted to correspond to words or phrases of the set of inputs. The media content portions are identified and classified according to a set of predetermined criteria. The order of the media content portions can be modified and different video and/or audio portions can be selected to correspond with the words or phrases. | 06-12-2014 |
20140207771 | Methods and Systems for Mapping Repair Orders within a Database - Methods and systems for mapping repairs orders within a database are described. Mapping a repair order can include generating a searchable data record with multiple data record fields. Each data record field can include a term located on the repair order or a standard term associated with the term on the repair order. In order to retrieve repair orders from the database, the data records can be searched using search criteria that match standard terms storable in the data record fields. Although the repair orders can be searched to find repair orders with terms that match the search criteria, the search may be carried our more efficiently (e.g., quicker) by searching the data records instead of the repair orders. One or more repairs orders can be associated with real-fix tips. Phrases of the real-fix tips can be selected automatically based, for example, or RO terms recited on the repair orders. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207772 | COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED INFORMATION REUSE - Embodiments of the present invention relate to an approach for reusing information/knowledge. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for retrieving previously stored data to satisfy queries (e.g., jobs/tickets) for solutions to problems while maintaining privacy/security of the data as well as ensuring the quality of the results. In a typical embodiment, a query for a solution to a problem is received and details are extracted therefrom. Using the details, a search is performed on a set of data stored in at least one computer storage device. Based on the search, a set of results will be generated and classified into a set of categories. In any event, the quality of each of the set of results will be assessed based on the usefulness of the set of results. | 07-24-2014 |
20140207773 | ASSOCIATION APPARATUS, ASSOCIATION METHOD, ASSOCIATION PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM - To associate a keyword with a category having a high degree of relevance with the keyword. An association apparatus comprises an acquisition means that acquires the number of times when each of a plurality of categories of a search target is designated as a search condition together with a keyword, and a registration means that registers category information indicating the category for which the number of times acquired by the acquisition means is a threshold or more, and the keyword in an associated manner. | 07-24-2014 |
20140214822 | SEARCHING FOR INFORMATION WITHIN SOCIAL NETWORKS - Systems and methods for searching for information within social networks are described. In some examples embodiments, a search assist system receives a query, such as a partial query, identifies two or more categories of data that include information satisfying the query, ranks the identified categories of data based on various selection criteria, and presents suggested search terms based on the rankings. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214823 | VIRTUAL VISITOR'S CENTER APPLICATION FOR THE DIGITAL COMMUNITY - Systems and methods for providing a social media tool that permits users to identify “what to do” in a particular geographical area in real-time. This is accomplished by utilizing the rate of support (or “likes”) localized topics receive from users in a particular geographical area. A topic can be a place, activity, event, concept, value, brand, etc. A user may operate an application on a computing device to see a list of popular topics in their area. The area may be any defined geographical area, such as a city, stadium, event, etc. The users can like topics, add new topics, add photos, comments, or other content to topics, and subscribe to (or “follow”) their favorite topics. Users can view topics in any geographical region, but they can only contribute likes or content for the particular geographical area in which they are present. | 07-31-2014 |
20140214824 | METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM FOR ADDING INFORMATION OF FRIENDS - Provided is a method, device and computer storage medium for adding information of friends, and said method includes following steps: acquiring a user ID of a user and a friend ID of a friend of the user from a first network relationship list; according to said user ID and said friend ID, acquiring second correlation information corresponding to said user and said friend from several second network relationship lists; according to said second correlation information, determining first correlation information corresponding to the user and the friend in said first network relationship list, and adding said first correlation information into said first network relationship list. The method and device for adding information of friends provided in the present disclosure can accurately recognize the correlation information corresponding to the user and the friend on the basis of existing network relationship lists, and automatically add remark information for friends of the user. | 07-31-2014 |
20140280115 | METHODS, APPARATUSES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR IMPROVED DEVICE AND NETWORK SEARCHING - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for improved device and network searching based on the number of character inputs being provided. A method may include receiving at least one character input. The method may further include causing, in response to receiving the at least one character input, performance of a first search within a local memory of a device based at least in part on the at least one character input. The method may further include causing, in response to receiving a number of character inputs that exceeds a threshold number, performance of a second search external to the device based at least in part on the character inputs. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided. | 09-18-2014 |
20140317105 | LIVE RECOMMENDATION GENERATION - A system and/or method is provided for using a scatter gather information retrieval system for live recommendation generation. The method may include retrieving user information classified in a plurality of categories. For at least one of the plurality of categories, a document recommendation query may be generated based on the user information classified in a corresponding one of the plurality of categories. For each generated recommendation query, a plurality of documents satisfying the recommendation query may be retrieved from a corpus of documents. The corpus may classify a plurality of documents of a determined type available for consumption by the user. Each retrieved plurality of documents may be ranked to generate a final list of recommendations for the user. Each of the plurality of documents may include identifying information for a book, a song, a video, a movie, a music album, an application, and/or a TV show. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324850 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING CONTENT POPULARITY BASED ON SEARCHES - Embodiments of the present disclosure help content providers identify popular topics based on Internet search data, as well as to quantify the popularity of content addressing those topics. A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises receiving search data by a computer system; identifying a category related to at least a portion of the search data; determining, by the computer system and based on the search data, a topic for content associated with the identified category; and determining, by the computer system, a score indicative of a level of popularity for the topic, wherein determining the score is based on the search data and on one or more formats for the content associated with the topic. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324851 | CLASSIFYING E-COMMERCE QUERIES TO GENERATE CATEGORY MAPPINGS FOR DOMINANT PRODUCTS - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for classifying e-commerce queries to generate category mappings for dominant products. A query log is mined for any query records with click through information that indicates one or more products were selected from among corresponding query results. For each of one or more categories, a selection rate is calculated for any product selected from among at least one corresponding query result returned in response to a query of the category. A specified top number of products are identified in the category. The specified top number of products has higher selection rates relative to other products in the category. A category score is calculated for the category based on product information associated with the specified top number of products in the category. The one or more categories are ranked based on the calculated category scores. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324852 | Classifying Queries To Generate Category Mappings - Example systems and methods that classify queries to generate category mappings are described. In one implementation, a method mines a query log to identify query records with click through information and display information that indicate one or more products were selected or displayed within a specified date range. A category is associated with each of the products. The method calculates a display rate and a selection rate for any product selected or displayed among the products. A mapping is identified between queries and the shown categories, and between queries and the clicked products. A category score is calculated for a particular category based on a number of times the category is shown and a number of times the category is clicked. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324853 | SEARCH RELEVANCE - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for improving search relevance. In one implementation, a method identifies a first group of mappings generated for dominant queries associated with a query log. The method also identifies a second group of mappings that includes mappings between a first set of queries and categories shown for the first set of queries, and mappings between a second set of queries and clicked products for the second set of queries. Upon receipt of a query, the method applies the second group of mappings for the received query if the category mappings for the received query are in the second group of mappings. Alternatively, the method applies the first group of mappings for the received query if the category mappings for the received query are in the first group of mappings but not in the second group of mappings. | 10-30-2014 |
20140344264 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING INFORMATION IN DATABASES - A data processing system for searching information recorded in one or more databases and for generating one or more corresponding search results for presentation via a user interface is beneficially implemented such that the system includes computing hardware which is operable to execute one or more software products recorded on machine-readable data storage media; the system operates in a manner which reduces an overall computational effort at the one or more databases and reduces an amount of data exchange between the one or more databases and the user interface. The system is operable to enable a user to define, via the user interface, one or more categories into which search results are to be sorted after analysis thereof. Moreover, the system is operable to provide on the user interface supplementary information describing in greater detail the search results in response to user-interrogation of the one or more graphical objects. | 11-20-2014 |
20150046441 | RETURN OF ORTHOGONAL DIMENSIONS IN SEARCH TO ENCOURAGE USER EXPLORATION - Architecture that provides results and data which are alternative (“orthogonal”) to the original (or primary) query and encourage the user to engage with dimensions of information other than, but related to, the original query intent. The architecture computes the original intent of original search query, computes a category of the original query based on the original intent, computes a target document (result) of a domain based on the query intent, determines if orthogonal intent is desired, computes an alternative document result of the domain related to the intent, and presents content associated with the alternative document result. | 02-12-2015 |
20150046442 | SEARCH RESULT AUGMENTING - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for augmenting search results with a user defined suggestion and/or for providing a user defined suggestion. For example, a venue entity may be associated with search results and/or user information (e.g., a set of search results may correspond to the Eiffel Tower). User defined data associated with the venue entity may be evaluated to generate a user defined suggestion associated with the venue entity. For example, user generated content about the Eiffel Tower, such as tips, advice, opinions, and/or other information specified by social network users, may be evaluated to determine a user defined suggestion “get tower tickets early, they sell out fast”. The user defined suggestion may be provided to a user (e.g., visiting the venue entity) and/or used to augment the set of search results. In this way, practical information, derived from opinions shared by other users, may be provided. | 02-12-2015 |
20150052129 | WEIGHTING SENTIMENT INFORMATION - Weighting sentiment information includes capturing sentiment information of a post from an electronic source, categorizing the post into categories based on the sentiment information, and assigning a weight to the post based on an interest attribute. | 02-19-2015 |
20150074100 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OBTAINING ADDRESS BOOK, AND SERVER - The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for obtaining an address book, and a server. The method includes: performing matching in the address book according to a name to be searched for and entered by a user, to obtain to-be-sorted names; and obtaining a sorting attribute of the to-be-sorted names, sorting the to-be-sorted names according to the sorting attribute, and generating a name list, where the sorting attribute includes a department attribute or a department contact frequency. According to the method and apparatus for obtaining an address book, and the server in embodiments of the present invention, names that match a name to be searched for are sorted according to a sorting attribute, so that a user can find a desired name quickly and obtain corresponding contact information or other information, which saves the user's search time and improves user experience. | 03-12-2015 |
20150112982 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GATHERING AND ANALYZING INFORMATION - A method and system for gathering and analyzing information utilizing a preference list on a mobile user device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150142792 | AUTOMATED HIGHEST PRIORITY ORDERING OF CONTENT ITEMS STORED ON A DEVICE - A method and device relate to prioritizing content items stored on a device and, more particularly, relate to automatically ordering highest priority content items stored on a device according to multiple criteria. The method and device enabling presentation, on a display of the device, the high priority content items in order of their total priority. | 05-21-2015 |
20150302017 | Third-Party Analytics and Management - A system involves a network-connected service platform including a computerized server, a processor operating in the computerized server, executing instructions from a non-transitory physical medium, a data repository coupled to the network-connected server, a programmable interface operable in the service platform, enabled for two-way communication with a content platform, enabling the service platform to access and retrieve data from the content platform, and classification data and profile data stored in the data repository. The service platform, executing the instructions, retrieves data associated with specific content from the content platform, integrates the retrieved data with the classification data and profile data in the data repository, creating an enhanced data set, and provides interactive interfaces to computerized appliances connecting through the network, enabling users of the computerized appliances to access, analyze and manipulate the enhanced data set, results of user analysis and manipulation providing improved understanding of characteristics of the specific content. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310116 | PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS CORRESPONDING TO DISPLAYED CONTENT - Providing search results corresponding to displayed content is disclosed, including: receiving a search command associated with a selected piece of displayed content, wherein the displayed content is presented at a user interface; determining a search query from the selected piece of displayed content; determining a plurality of target search categories associated with the search query; performing a respective search using the search query in each target search category of the plurality of target search categories to obtain a corresponding set of one or more search results; and causing the corresponding set of one or more search results obtained for each target search category of the plurality of target search categories to be presented in a corresponding section associated with that target search category in a separate window at the user interface. | 10-29-2015 |
20150331878 | RANKING AUTOCOMPLETE RESULTS BASED ON A BUSINESS COHORT - During this autocomplete technique, autocomplete results for data-entry information from a user are ranked based on financial-transaction histories of a group of entities and the user, where the group of entities and the user belong to a common business cohort. In particular, the business cohort may include entities that: are located proximate to the user, have a similar size as a business associated with the user (such as a similar number of employees and/or similar revenue), and/or occur frequently in a financial-transaction history of the user (and don't occur frequently in the financial-transaction histories of the group of entities). The ranking may be used to increase the accuracy or relevance of the autocomplete results to the user. For example, the ranking may give preference in the autocomplete results to entities in the group of entities (relative to other entities, such as those in different business cohorts). | 11-19-2015 |
20150347437 | Most Relevant Application Recommendation Based on Crowd-Sourced Application Usage Data - Crowd-sourced localized application usage data is collected from mobile devices at a usage location and sent to a network-based service. The network-based service analyzes the data to determine a single most relevant application correlated to the usage location. Once the most relevant application is determined, a recommendation for the application is sent to client devices operating at the usage location. In some implementations the data is processed to determine whether the usage location is a chained venue, a large venue or an event. Once the usage location has been determined, the most relevant application can be selected for recommendation. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347604 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INFORMATION DISCLOSURE STATEMENT MANAGEMENT AND PRIOR ART CROSS-CITATION CONTROL - In an example embodiment, a system comprises one or more modules to specially-configure a capability of the system to manage prior art cross-citation. A patent case database is maintained which includes data about each patent case in the patent case database. Sample system operations include receiving a reference document into the database and associating the reference document with a first patent case in the patent case database. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347605 | PATENT MAPPING - Systems and computer implemented methods for patent mapping are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises a database of patent portfolios and a database of patents, each patent stored in the database of patents associated with one or more patent portfolios stored in the database of patent portfolios, and one or more specially-configured modules, each including a computer processor executing on software, to perform certain operations. The operations include highlighting claim terms associated with a patent concept across a number of patent claims; storing the associations; and displaying one or more mapped patent claims and the highlighted claim terms associated with the patent concept to a user in a graphic user interface. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356086 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING RELEVANCY SCORES OF SEARCH RESULTS - A method including the steps of: receiving, using one or more processors, a search query containing search terms from a user device; executing, using one or more processors, a query on a database based in response to the received search query; generating, using or more processors, search results based on the executed query; calculating, using one or more processors, a relevancy score for each of the generated search results, wherein the relevancy score is determined based on match properties of the search terms and field terms of a matching field; assigning, using one or more processors, a calculated relevancy score to each of the generated search results; and transmitting, using or more processors, the scored search results for display as a ranked list on the user device. | 12-10-2015 |
20150372955 | SORTING ELECTRONIC MAIL - Emails are received and parsed for a set of dates. A set of words surrounding the set of dates are identified and contextual information is correlated with the set of dates based on the set of words. It is then determined whether the dates are promotional expiration dates based on the contextual information. The emails that have promotional dates are placed in a list having a chronological order that is based on the promotional expiration dates. The current calendar date is checked and emails are excluded from the list in response to the current calendar date being chronologically after the promotional expiration date. The list is then displayed based on the exclusion of the email. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379010 | Dynamic Concept Based Query Expansion - An approach is provided expand queries processed by a question/answer (QA) system. In the approach, concepts are extracted from documents using natural language processing to identify the concepts included in passages found in the documents. The approach generates child level categories in a category hierarchy from the concepts and groups the child level categories into sets based on related concepts. The process creates parent categories from the sets and divides a corpus used by the QA system into a number of sub-corpora, with each of the sub-corpora corresponding to one of the child level categories. The approach answers questions posed to the QA system by identifying a child level category related to the question and searching the sub-corpora corresponding to the child level category. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379015 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SCORING TEXTS - A computer-implemented method, computer-readable medium and system for scoring a text are disclosed. Themes within one or more texts may be determined and used to score each text, where an overall score for each text may indicate a respective importance and/or value of each text. The score for each text may be determined based upon a number of themes, type of themes, frequency of theme elements associated with the themes, distribution of theme elements associated with the themes, location of themes in the text, some combination thereof, etc. In this manner, the importance or value of one or more texts may be determined more accurately using information within each text with reduced reliance upon external information. Additionally, more relevant search results can be returned to a user by using internal information to perform ranking operations and/or filtering operations associated with a search. | 12-31-2015 |
20160012135 | FILTER CUSTOMIZATION FOR SEARCH FACILITATION | 01-14-2016 |
20160019217 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RECOMMENDING MEDIA ITEMS - Large media libraries containing songs, movies, or images, can be organized as a graphical media map. Depending on the contents of a particular large media library, the media map can have empty cells that do not correspond to a media item in the media library. To fill these cells with meaningful recommendations based on media items that are already in the library, a recommendation system provides a recommendation of a media item for a particular cell based on the media items corresponding to cells proximate to the cell. The recommendation is generated using metadata tags describing the nearby media items and media items that are not currently part of the media library. The recommendations can be updated based on changes made to the media map. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019300 | Identifying Files for Data Write Operations - Techniques for identifying files for data write operations are described. According to various embodiments, streams of mixed data are sorted based on various criteria and/or filters to generate individual sets of like data. The data sets are buffered in individual data queues in preparation to be written to persistent storage. According to various embodiments, files are requested for storing the data sets. For instance, a file request is submitted that includes write parameters for a data set. Based on the write parameters, a file is identified and selected for storing the data set. An identifier for the file is provided that enables the data set to be written to the file. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026722 | CONTENT MANAGEMENT DEVICE AND CONTENT MANAGEMENT METHOD - Disclosed is a content management method, which includes obtaining data for a content including a plurality of point-of-interest (POI) and a plurality of POI documents associated with each of the plurality of POIs, obtaining at least one level-of-detail (LOD) information which allows the content to be displayed according to an interest of the user, and determining a display format for the content based on the LOD information. Here, the LOD information may include information for the interest level of the user with regard to the content, and the interest level may be independent from a scale level of a map at which the content is displayed. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034472 | Rules Based Playlist Generation - Multiple playlists can be generated for broadcast or streaming. An aggregate difference representing a difference between the aggregate playout length of the multiple playlists and a target playout length can be determined. If the aggregate difference exceeds a difference threshold, a subsequent time period can be reduced, so a playlist generated for the subsequent time period can be constrained to be shorter. The playlists can be generated based on different versions of a ranking chart or list that includes ranked media items, e.g. songs, videos, etc., by automatically including the highest ranked media items to the playlist, but only adding some of the lower ranked media items to the playlist. Lower-ranked media items can be pseudo-randomly excluded from one or more of the playlists if the media item's rank in a newer version of a ranking chart is lower than its ranking in a previous version. | 02-04-2016 |
20160048514 | HANDLING INFORMATION SOURCE INGESTION IN A QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM - A question-answering (QA) system first receives input questions. Each question is then assigned to a first question category of a plurality of question categories. The QA system then identifies a set of candidate answers to each question using a core information source. A set of confidence scores, including a confidence score for each candidate answer, is then calculated. The QA system then determines that the first set of confidence scores fails to satisfy confidence criteria. In response to this determination, an updated information source is ingested. | 02-18-2016 |
20160063116 | ANALYSIS OF USER'S DATA TO RECOMMEND CONNECTIONS - One or more files associated with a user are scanned. Metadata corresponding to the one or more files is determined. One or more categories based on the one or more files is determined, wherein the one or more categories is associated with the user. One or more categories are modified based on the metadata corresponding to the one or more files. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063124 | CONTENT SEARCH METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE IMPLEMENTING SAME - A method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes displaying tags; detecting a selection of one of the displayed tags; displaying at least one tag related to the tag; and displaying information regarding at least one content related to the selected tag. | 03-03-2016 |
20160078135 | QUERY SELECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM - A system and method for query selection are provided. The method may include acquiring a natural language sentence, pre-processing to obtain a standard node sequence, constructing a node tree based on the relationship between an index node and other nodes, generating a data query command based on the node tree, querying data using the data query command, and filtering the results. The standard node sequence may include at least an index node and a condition node. The node tree may be used to characterize the index-condition combination. The system may include an acquisition unit, a pre-processing unit, a node tree construction unit, a translation unit, and a querying and filtering unit. | 03-17-2016 |
20160098476 | METHOD OF SHARING MULTI-MEDIA CONTENT AMONG USERS IN A GLOBAL COMPUTER NETWORK - In one embodiment of the present invention, a method for sharing multi-media content among a plurality of users in a computer network comprises creating a plurality of user accounts, each of said user accounts corresponding to one of the plurality of users, and having a plurality of interactive features including a first feature that permits the user to upload the multi-media content to the computer network; forming a user network including one or more of the plurality of user accounts in communication with one or more other user accounts and to the uploaded multi-media content via the computer network; categorizing the uploaded multi-media content in accordance with the subject matter of the uploaded multi-media content; organizing the uploaded multimedia content in a competitive format; and establishing a hierarchy for the uploaded multi-media content within the competitive format as a function of a competitive measurement system. | 04-07-2016 |
20160110357 | USING QUESTION ANSWERING (QA) SYSTEMS TO IDENTIFY ANSWERS AND EVIDENCE OF DIFFERENT MEDIUM TYPES - First, a computer may receive an input query of a first medium type. The input query may then be analyzed. Based on the analysis, the input query may be categorized as being associated with at least a second medium type. A first-medium-type search of a set of corpora may then be performed. Based on the results of the first-medium-type search, a candidate answer of the first medium type may be generated. In response to the categorizing, a second-medium-type search of the set of corpora may also be performed. | 04-21-2016 |
20160110387 | PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing documents and information of a product lifecycle management system to a user system is disclosed. The method includes locating a latest released drawing associated with the component part number in the product lifecycle management database. The method also includes aggregating a part displacement record for each version of the component into a part replacement report. The method further includes providing a graphical user interface to the user system that displays a download link to the latest released drawing and displays a link to the part replacement report with the download link and the link located within a single window. | 04-21-2016 |
20160125014 | REGISTERING DATA MODIFICATION LISTENER IN A DATA-GRID - A node including a memory to store data of the node and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor can receive, from a listener in a data grid system, a filter defined by search criteria of a search query. The processor can also communicate, to the listener, data from the memory that is filtered using the filter. The processor can further identify changes to the filtered data. The processor can further record, into a queue, the changes to the filtered data in the memory after the filtered data is communicated to the listener. The processor can further communicate, to the listener, the queue of changes to the filtered data. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125064 | ANSWER CATEGORY DATA CLASSIFYING USING DYNAMIC THRESHOLDS - Managing confidence data in a question-answering environment is disclosed. Managing confidence data can include sorting, based on a set of answer categories for a subject matter, a first set of a plurality of answers into a first answer category. The first set can correspond to at least one of a third set of a plurality of confidence scores and the second set can correspond to at least one of a fourth set of the plurality of confidence scores. Managing confidence data can include classifying confidence scores of the third set into one of a plurality of confidence buckets using a first threshold and determining a fifth set of a plurality of thresholds using the plurality of confidence scores. Managing confidence data can include classifying unclassified confidence scores of the third set into one of the plurality of confidence buckets using the fifth set of the plurality of thresholds. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132602 | GUIDED SEARCH - Techniques for assisting a user in conducting a search for online content are described. According to various embodiments, a set of search results is generated, in response to a user search query. A list of candidate facet-value pairs, for inclusion in a suggestion facet user interface element for display in-line with the set of search results, is then accessed. The suggestion facet user interface element may be configured, upon user selection, to filter the set of search results based on the corresponding facet-value pair. Thereafter, win rate information identifying win rates associated with each of the candidate facet-value pairs is accessed. A specific one of the candidate facet-value pairs having the highest win rate is then selected for inclusion in the suggestion facet user interface element. | 05-12-2016 |
20160147840 | SYSTEM FOR RETRIEVING, VISUALIZING AND EDITING SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS - Annotations can be handled by a computer system that receives a query that specifies parameters for extraction of particular annotations from a set of annotations. Annotations include metadata that describes properties of the associated text fragment. A first entity subset, a second entity subset and a relations subset of annotations are extracted from an annotated text corpus. Contextual information relative to the extracted annotations is also extracted from the corpus. A user interface is generated to display frame elements that include the extracted annotations subsets and the extracted contextual information. In response to selections to the frame elements, the system receives input that specifies modifications to the annotations. Based on the input received, the set of annotations is modified in the annotated text corpus. | 05-26-2016 |
20160147889 | PRESENTING ANTICIPATED USER SEARCH QUERY RESULTS PROMPTED BY A TRIGGER - A method for presenting search query results is provided. The method may include detecting an occurrence of the trigger event. The method may include determining a category of information based on data associated with the trigger event. The method may include identifying at least one constraint based on the determined category of information. The method may include appending to the identified at least one constraint to the determined category of information. The method may include generating at least one search query. The method may include selecting at least one candidate website based on the category of information. The method may include performing the at least one search query on the at least one candidate website. The method may include filtering each search query result within the search query results. The method may include sending each filtered search query result within the search query results to a user. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154898 | TOPIC PRESENTATION METHOD, DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM | 06-02-2016 |
20160179944 | SCORING ATTRIBUTES IN A DEEP QUESTION ANSWERING SYSTEM BASED ON SYNTACTIC OR SEMANTIC GUIDELINES | 06-23-2016 |
20160378749 | METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE TAGS FOR MEDIA USING MULTIPLE MEDIA FEATURES - Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine tags for unknown media using multiple media features. The methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for tagging unknown media, extracts audio features from an audio portion of the unknown media. The methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for tagging unknown media, extracts image features from image portions of the unknown media. The methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for tagging unknown media, weights the audio features with respect to the image features or weights the image features with respect to the audio features based at least partially on the recognition technology used to extract the feature. The methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for tagging unknown media, searches a database of pre-tagged media using the weighted features to generate a list of suggested tags for the unknown media. The methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for tagging unknown media, tags the unknown media with approved tags from the list of suggested tags. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378770 | TRAINING A CLASSIFICATION MODEL TO PREDICT CATEGORIES - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for training a classification model to predict categories. In one implementation, a method identifies category mappings generated for dominant queries associated with a query log. The method identifies mappings between a first set of queries and categories shown for the first set of queries, and identifies mappings between a second set of queries and clicked products for the second set of queries. A classification model is trained based on the mappings generated for dominant queries, the mappings between queries and the shown categories, and the mappings between queries and the clicked products. | 12-29-2016 |
20160378771 | SEARCH RELEVANCE - The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for training a classification model to predict categories. In one implementation, a method identifies category mappings generated for dominant queries associated with a query log. The method identifies mappings between a first set of queries and categories shown for the first set of queries, and identifies mappings between a second set of queries and clicked products for the second set of queries. A classification model is trained based on the mappings generated for dominant queries, the mappings between queries and the shown categories, and the mappings between queries and the clicked products. | 12-29-2016 |