DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICE, DEVICE FOR BUILDING DATABASE TO BE USED FOR PROVIDING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM SIGNAL

Number of patents in Portfolio can not be more than 2000

United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20130317933A1
SERIAL NO

13979969

Stats

ATTORNEY / AGENT: (SPONSORED)

Importance

Loading Importance Indicators... loading....

Abstract

See full text

An information retrieval service system 40 includes: a storage device 64 for storing a question corpus; a clustering unit 100 clustering the questions and determining a prototype of each cluster; an auctioning unit 104 executing auctions for the prototypes; an updating unit 112 associating each of the questions with a winning bidder of the prototype sentence of the cluster to which the question belongs; a question-URL correspondence DB 68 storing, for each of the questions, a URL designated by the winning bidder; a question-searching unit 132 receiving a search request and searching for a question having the shortest distance to the search request; and URL searching units 134, 136 and a query issuing unit 138, transmitting the query generated from the search request to the URL corresponding to the searched out question and transmitting resulting information to an information service using terminal 48.

Loading the Abstract Image... loading....

First Claim

See full text

Family

Loading Family data... loading....

Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddress
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGYTOKYO 184-8795

International Classification(s)

  • [Classification Symbol]
  • [Patents Count]

Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
De, Saeger Stijn Kyoto, JP 7 135
Kazama, Junichi Kyoto, JP 11 476
Ootake, Kiyonori Kyoto, JP 6 61
Torisawa, Kentaro Kyoto, JP 31 376
Varga, Istvan Kyoto, JP 3 10
Yan, Yulan Kyoto, JP 4 39

Cited Art Landscape

Load Citation

Patent Citation Ranking

Forward Cite Landscape

Load Citation