Image extraction service for question and answer search engine

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9361384
APP PUB NO 20150186526A1
SERIAL NO

14141361

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A question and answer system for providing results to requests comprising an online system and an offline system. The offline system includes a file system, a hierarchical database and an index controller having at least one reducer that retrieves content from the file system and at least one writer that maintains the data store with the content retrieved by the reducer, and maintains the hierarchical database with data reflecting the content in the data store. The offline system includes an image queue, an index controller that updates the image queue with data representing content in the data store that include images, an image extraction service having a thumbnailer generating thumbnails for the images, an uploader and at least one static image server, the uploader uploading the thumbnails and images to the static image server.

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IAC SEARCH & MEDIA INC555 12TH STREET SUITE 500 OAKLAND CA 94607

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Rao, Vaijanath N Sausalito, US 7 73
Singh, Bhawna Fremont, US 6 62

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