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US20090319518 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION DISCOVERY AND TEXT ANALYSIS  
A method for searching text sources including temporally-ordered data objects, such as a blog, is provided including the steps of: (i) providing access to text sources, each text source including...
US20090319514 METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING SCORES  
A system for implementing a scoring method, wherein the system includes at least a data analyzer configured to: determine a plurality of scoring intervals dependent upon the data to be analyzed;...
US20090319516 Contextual Advertising Using Video Metadata and Chat Analysis  
A method of delivering advertising content over the internet to a selected client, the selected client being one of a plurality of clients causing display of media content synchronously. The method...
US20090319336 DIAMOND VALUATION METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM PRODUCT  
Further it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for evaluating a diamond comprising the steps of selecting a diamond to value, determining the shape, size, color, clarity and...
US20090319940 NETWORK OF TRUST AS MARRIED TO MULTI-SCALE  
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates visually representing data relationships within a network. A network includes a graphical representation of a user in...
US20090319520 Method and System for Generating Analogous Fictional Data From Non-Fictional Data  
A method and system for generating analogous fictional data from non-fictional data, is provided. One implementation involves recording non-fictional data, scoring the non-fictional data in terms...
US20090319510 Systems and methods for document searching  
Systems and methods are provided for document searching. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method provides keyword searching. The method may receive a plurality of noisy keywords for a...
US20090319504 Method and Apparatus for Providing Enhanced Search Results to a User of a Communication Device  
A method and apparatus of a wireless communication system for providing enhanced search results to a user. The method includes monitoring data communication on a user device, determining at least...
US20090319408 PROVISON APPLICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD  
A system, computer-implemented method, and a computer program product for defining one or more payment distribution priorities associated with one or more rental properties. Rental property...
US20090319512 AGGREGATOR, FILTER, AND DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ONLINE CONTENT  
A computing device that filters online content to be delivered to an individual includes a processor, and a computer readable storage medium storing instructions. When the instructions are...
US20090319509 Method and system for locating data  
A system is provided for locating data in a distributed data environment, in which at least two users share a common data requirement. The environment comprises a plurality of network-connected...
US20090319505 TECHNIQUES FOR EXTRACTING AUTHORSHIP DATES OF DOCUMENTS  
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for calculating authorship dates for a document. A portion of a document to select to look for possible authorship dates is determined. The...
US20090319515 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ENTITY KNOWLEDGEBASES  
Systems and methods are presented for building comprehensive entity knowledgebases that can consolidate multiple linked references to the same entity. The resulting virtual repository can be...
US20090319506 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EFFICIENTLY FINDING EMAIL SIMILARITY IN AN EMAIL REPOSITORY  
Systems and methods for efficiently identifying emails with content similarity are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method comprises grouping a first set of a plurality of email documents with only...
US20090319367 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR NODE RANKING BASED ON DNS SESSION DATA  
Systems and methods for ranking pages and/or hosts in a faster and more relevant manner are provided. Systems and methods for ranking pages and/or hosts based on session data and/or traffic data...
US20090319555 OPTIMIZING DOCUMENTS BASED ON DESIRED CONTENT  
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and computer storage media for optimizing the content of an online publisher. The content of the publisher is received. A category for each...
US20090319899 USER INTERFACE, METHOD OF NAVIGATING CONTENT, APPARATUS FOR REPRODUCING CONTENT, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING THE METHOD  
A user interface for navigating content to be reproduced by selecting a filtering condition according to a user's preference on the basis of a playlist, a method of navigating content using the...
US20090319326 CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM FOR INDUSTRIAL HUMAN RESOURCES  
An environment is constructed in which students, job seekers, and employees can surely improve their skills to become the human resource image having skills and the like required by enterprises and...
US20090319519 COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM  
There is provided a communication system including a plurality of communication devices including first, second and third communication devices and performable of one-on-one communication with one...
US20090319508 CONSISTENT PHRASE RELEVANCE MEASURES  
Two methods for measuring keyword-document relevance are described. The methods receive a keyword and a document as input and output a probability value for the keyword. The first method is a...
US20090319385 MONETIZING AND PRIORITIZING RESULTS OF A DISTRIBUTED SEARCH  
An operator provides services to a population of client device, such as mobile communication devices, including search services accessed via an operator portal. A search gateway places a search...
US20090319941 Searching method and apparatus  
A method of searching for a data item in a stored chronological sequence of communication events relating to a user of a user terminal is provided. The method comprises: querying a communication...
US20090319507 METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR ADAPTING A RANKING FUNCTION OF A SEARCH ENGINE FOR USE WITH A SPECIFIC DOMAIN  
Methods and apparatuses are provided for adapting hierarchical structure information associated with a first ranking function tuned for use in a first domain for use in a second domain.
US20090316199 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM  
A terminal is provided with an image obtaining portion that obtains an image including a code representing a location of a web page, a web page obtaining portion that obtains the web page based on...
US20090319388 Image Capture for Purchases  
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-implemented item identification method that includes identifying an item in an image received from a...
US20090319503 MATCHING QUERIES IN A NETWORK  
A method of matching queries in a hybrid infrastructure/infrastructure-less network, the network comprising pluralities of first and second type communication devices respectively, the method...
US20090319517 QUERY IDENTIFICATION AND ASSOCIATION  
Apparatus, systems and methods for predictive query identification for advertisements are disclosed. Candidate query are identified from queries stored in a query log. Relevancy scores for a...
US20090319513 SIMILARITY CALCULATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION SEARCH DEVICE  
[Problems] To accurately calculate similarity between media data and a query even if the media data or its meta data has an error. [Means for Solving the Problems] A similarity calculation device...
US20090319511 DESIRABILITY VALUE USING SALE FORMAT RELATED FACTORS  
Some example embodiments illustrate a system and method to sort a search result using sale format information. The system and method include providing a desirability index including multiple...
US20090319907 EVALUATION OF ORDERED LISTS TO DETERMINE SIMILARITY BETWEEN CONNECTED USERS OF A NETWORK  
The method and system to evaluation of ordered lists to determine similarity between connected users of a network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes presenting a defined list...
US20090319167 METHOD AND APPARATUS TO PROVIDE LOCATION INFORMATION  
A method of providing location information through a navigation device, the method including: obtaining location information from the Internet; and converting the obtained location information into...
US20090313246 DOCUMENT IMPORTANCE CALCULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD  
A computer readable storage medium stores a program that allows a computer to execute a process comprising: acquiring information related to N documents; determining elements of an N-th square...
US20090313247 User Interface for Facts Query Engine with Snippets from Information Sources that Include Query Terms and Answer Terms  
A method and a system for providing snippets of source documents of an answer to a fact query are disclosed. Snippets of source documents may be provided in response to a user request for the...
US20090313243 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING SEMANTIC DATA RESOURCES  
A semantic data resource of a domain is processed by calculating relevance scores for terms which occur in domain corpora and weighting the semantic data resource depending on the relevance scores...
US20090313236 SEARCHING, SORTING, AND DISPLAYING VIDEO CLIPS AND SOUND FILES BY RELEVANCE  
A documents database has a plurality of documents, including but not limited to text files, video clips and sound files. Each document is associated with at least one category of a plurality of...
US20090310164 IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PRINTING METHOD, PUBLICIZED INFORMATION AGGREGATING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM FOR COMPUTER PROGRAM  
An image forming apparatus is provided with a browsing setting table storage portion for storing a keyword specified by a user, an update presence/absence determination portion for retrieving, from...
US20090313234 CONTENT SEARCHING APPARATUS  
A content searching apparatus facilitating a search of a content which a user desires even where relativity between a content and a keyword change includes: a content table storing unit ( 108 )...
US20090313099 MESSAGING SYSTEM AND METHOD  
A messaging method using a mobile user terminal, the method including the steps of: creating, at the mobile user terminal, at least one graphical messaging symbol adapted to convey a meaning to a...
US20090313241 Seeding search engine crawlers using intercepted network traffic  
A method includes monitoring data packets exchanged in a computer network over which documents having respective location identifiers are distributed, so as to detect a request to access a given...
US20090313235 SOCIAL NETWORKS SERVICE  
A social network service provides trusted, timely and managed communications between a querying individual and an informed individual by optimizing distribution of queries to reflect a requisite...
US20090313244 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISPLAYING CONTEXT-RELATED SOCIAL CONTENT ON WEB PAGES  
A method for displaying context-related social content on web pages may comprise a method wherein one or more computer processors cause performance of steps comprising matching at least one cue...
US20090313245 Mixed Media Reality Brokerage Network With Layout-Independent Recognition  
A Mixed Media Reality (MMR) system associated techniques are disclosed. The MMR system provides mechanisms for forming a mixed media document that includes media of at least two types (e.g.,...
US20090313232 Methods and Apparatus to Calculate Audience Estimations  
Methods and apparatus for calculating audience estimations are disclosed. An example method includes identifying a subset of stored viewership data and allocating an observation array having a...
US20090313242 CONTENT ASSESING APPARATUS, CONTENT SEARCHING APPARATUS, CONTENT ASSESING METHOD, CONTENT SEARCHING METHOD, AND FIRST AND SECOND COMPUTER PROGRAMS  
A content evaluation device includes: extraction means ( 11 ) for extracting a feature amount quantitatively characterizing a content for each of contents; interpolation means ( 22 ) for...
US20090313133 AUCTION SYSTEM, INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM  
The present invention has an object to offer an auction system or the like which also plays the role of a supplementary function for the realization of commodity idea. There is disclosed an...
US20090313238 SEARCH INDEX FORMAT OPTIMIZATIONS  
A search index structure which extends a typical composite index by incorporating an index which is optimized for fast retrieval from storage and which eliminates data which is specific to phrase...
US20090313237 GENERATING QUERY SUGGESTIONS FROM SEMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS IN CONTENT  
A method for suggesting related queries to a user query using semantic relationships that are present in informational content stored in public domains. Semantic relationships between named...
US20090313233 INSPIRATION SUPPORT APPARATUS, INSPIRATION SUPPORT METHOD AND INSPIRATION SUPPORT PROGRAM  
An inspiration support apparatus includes: a text database that stores a plurality of texts; a text mining section that analyzes the plurality of texts stored in the text database by text mining,...
US20090313088 Patriotic American Shopping Network  
Variants of the invention are directed to Internet-based shopping networks which provide information to consumers who desire to purchase locally-produced or locally-manufactured products or...
US20090313239 Adaptive Visual Similarity for Text-Based Image Search Results Re-ranking  
Described is a technology in which images initially ranked by some relevance estimate (e.g., according to text-based similarities) are re-ranked according to visual similarity with a user-selected...