US Patent No: 7,565,363

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Search engine with user activity memory

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Abstract

A search engine is disclosed that utilizes both record based data and user activity data to develop, update and refine ranking protocols and to identify words and phrases that give rise to search ambiguity so that the engine can interact with the user to better respond to user queries and enhance data acquisition from databases, intranets and internets.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
GOOGLE INC.MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA7135

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Anwar, Mohammed S 1222 Ridgeley Dr., Houston, TX 77055 6 358

Cited Art

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NIELSEN COMPANY (US), LLC, THE (1)
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PINPOINT INCORPORATED (1)
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SRI INTERNATIONAL (1)
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GOOGLE INC. (7)
8,396,865 Sharing search engine relevance data between corpora 0 2008
8,447,760 Generating a related set of documents for an initial set of documents 0 2009
7,716,205 System for user driven ranking of web pages 1 2009
7,873,623 System for user driven ranking of web pages 0 2010
8,359,309 Modifying search result ranking based on corpus search statistics 0 2011
8,380,705 Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using related queries 0 2011
8,452,758 Methods and systems for improving a search ranking using related queries 0 2012
 
DECHO CORPORATION (2)
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8,117,198 Methods for generating search engine index enhanced with task-related metadata 0 2007
 
APPLE INC. (1)
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NHN CORPORATION (1)
7,756,868 Method for providing search results list based on importance information and system thereof 1 2005

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