US Patent No: 6,271,840
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Graphical search engine visual index
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Aug 7, 2001
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Sep 24, 1998
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Abstract
A visual index method provides graphical output from search engine results or other URL lists. Search engine results or a list of URLs are passed to a web crawler that retrieves the web page and other media information present at the associated URL. The web crawler then passes this information to a page renderer which also receives image scale and format information regarding the web pages present at the URLs. The graphical information as well as other media information is then rendered into a reduced graphical form so that the page may be summarily reviewed by the user. Media, visual, or other information may also be downwardly scaled as appropriate or rendered in its original as appropriate (such as with audio data streams). A variety of convenient formats allows the user to quickly and readily scan the presentation at the URL web pages or other data present. Image maps associated with the reduced images may also provide hyperlink access to the linked web page and/or multimedia allowing the links present on the web page in its original to be accessed through the reduced image provided by the web page renderer.
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- 15 United States
- 10 France
- 8 Japan
- 7 China
- 5 Korea
- 2 Other
Patent Owner(s)
| Patent Owner | Address | Total Patents |
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| INTELLECTUAL VENTURES FUND 57 LLC | LAS VEGAS, NV | 1 |
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| Inventor Name | Address | # of filed Patents | Total Citations |
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| Finseth, James Lee | 926 1st St., #2, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 | 1 | 197 |
| Hermel, Jerry | 5333 Wortser Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA 91401 | 1 | 197 |
| Pelz, Bryan F | 3854 N. Orchid La., #D, Calabasas, CA 91301 | 1 | 197 |
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| 7,343,053 Transform table for ink sizing and compression | 0 | 2004 | |
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| 7,836,012 Systems and methods for information extraction | 1 | 2007 | |
| 8,032,518 System and method for enabling website owners to manage crawl rate in a website indexing system | 1 | 2009 | |
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| 8,234,266 Mobile SiteMaps | 0 | 2010 | |
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| 8,204,881 Information search, retrieval and distillation into knowledge objects | 0 | 2010 | |
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| 6,557,006 System and method for displaying an interactive electronic representation of a corresponding static media object | 15 | 1999 | |
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| 7,797,635 Electronic search interface technology | 2 | 2010 | |
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