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6321220 Method and apparatus for preventing topic drift in queries in hyperlinked environments  
A method and apparatus for preventing topic drift in queries in hyperlinked environments uses equivalence components for ranking pages containing information that is relevant to the topic of a user...
6321227 Web search function to search information from a specific location  
A method for providing information placed in the specific location after analyzing the locations of the information is disclosed. Web search function to search information placed in the specific...
6321228 Internet search system for retrieving selected results from a previous search  
A system and method that enable Internet users to access selected records retrieved from result sets that are derived from earlier search queries. The invention tracks and ranks selected records...
6321226 Flexible keyboard searching  
A search engine implements a multi-level search scheme. A first level involves performing a keyword search based on character matching. A second level, performed only if the first level yields no...
6321251 Gateway for dynamically providing web site status information  
Apparatus and method which allows a user to dynamically gather Web Site status information from a Web Browser. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention allows a user to gather information...
6314432 System and method for retrieval, saving and printing of using hyperlinks  
A system and method for storing, saving and printing information in a computer network system, particularly the internet, where a plurality of network server devices are in communication with at...
6311189 Technique for matching a query to a portion of media  
A method for matching a query to a portion of media, includes receiving a query relating to media of interest and searching, based upon the query, an index of annotations. Each of the annotations...
6304872 Search system for providing fulltext search over web pages of world wide web servers  
The present invention provides a search system for providing fulltext search over web pages of world wide web servers which can save memory by storing only text, path and hyperlink data of a web...
6304870 Method and apparatus of automatically generating a procedure for extracting information from textual information sources  
A procedure is disclosed for automatically constructing wrappers for performing information-extraction from sites such as Internet resources that display relevant information, interspersed with...
6289341 Intelligent agent for identifying intellectual property infringement issues in computer network sites and method of operation thereof  
An intelligent agent capable of traversing sites in a computer network to identify intellectual property (IP) infringement issues that may exist in those network sites and a method of identifying...
6285999 Method for node ranking in a linked database  
A method assigns importance ranks to nodes in a linked database, such as any database of documents containing citations, the world wide web or any other hypermedia database. The rank assigned to a...
6286002 System and method for storing and searching buy and sell information of a marketplace  
A method of accessing a database using a computer system. One example of the method includes the following steps. Access a tree data structure. The tree data structure includes a set of nodes...
6282534 Reverse content indexing  
A method for generating knowledge base entries by using a programmed computer with access to said knowledge base is disclosed. In one embodiment, after information is collected from content...
6281874 Method and system for downloading graphic images on the internet  
In a method and system for downloading graphic images on the Network, at least one high-resolution graphic image file of a reference image is stored at a network server. At least part of the...
6275820 System and method for integrating search results from heterogeneous information resources  
A system and method for relative ranking and contextual summarization of search hits from multiple distributed, heterogeneous information resources based upon the original content of each hit is...
6275827 Technique for processing data  
A technique for processing data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by receiving a first representation of data at a processing device, which then processes the first...
6272507 System for ranking search results from a collection of documents using spreading activation techniques  
A system and method for ranking the results of a search on a collection of linked documents. Documents found on the Web are typically referred to as Web pages. The system utilizes various...
6272492 Front-end proxy for transparently increasing web server functionality  
A system and method for system for electronic communication, in which functional enhancements may be added that require no modification or replacement of the content-storing servers and is...
6271840 Graphical search engine visual index  
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...
6269364 Method and apparatus to automatically test and modify a searchable knowledge base  
In accordance with a first aspect of the present invention, duplicate responses to a query are automatically determined and eliminated. In accordance with a second aspect of the present invention,...
6269362 System and method for monitoring web pages by comparing generated abstracts  
Provided is a computerized method for monitoring the content of documents. A set of documents is stored in memories of server computers. The server computers can be connected to each other by a...
6269370 Web scan process  
An information locator system providing for the expedient acquisition, validation and updating of information locators in a heterogenous network protocol environment. The locator system includes an...
6266676 Link information management method  
A link information management method is capable of reducing the number of steps of a link maintenance processing of link information indicating a correspondence relationship between geographical...
6266657 Technique for indexing data in a network  
A technique for indexing data in a network having a plurality of network stations is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by receiving a data identifier at a first of the...
6263364 Web crawler system using plurality of parallel priority level queues having distinct associated download priority levels for prioritizing document downloading and maintaining document freshness  
A web crawler downloads documents from among a plurality of host computers. The web crawler enqueues document addresses in a data structure called the Frontier. The Frontier generally includes a...
6256623 Network search access construct for accessing web-based search services  
Search clips are segments of information which provide a consistent user interface and a consistent set of rules for searching varying web-based search services. Search clips are searchable (i.e....
6253208 Information access  
An information access system is provided to create and maintain a rapidly accessible index to information extracted from information sources accessible over the Internet. The information access...
6243708 Technique for accessing an item of interest within a stored representation of data  
A method for locating a particularly relevant position within a multimedia steam includes identifying a multimedia stream based upon a query. The locations relevant to the query within the...
6243699 Systems and methods of indexing and retrieving data  
A self-evolving generic index for storing marketplace information for multiple types of items allows users to add new parameters, values and possibly new classifications for use in describing...
6236987 Dynamic content organization in information retrieval systems  
An information system and method provide organizational and navigational aids to a user to facilitate exploration and analysis of a document collection. The system includes a document collection...
6226645 Construction of conceptional drawings utilizing hyper link information of web document and internet searching method through it  
This invention relates to an Internet searching method, and which is characterized to be proceeded by: a hyper link information searching process for visiting the linked web documents and storing...
6219671 Technique for storing data information within a network  
A method for storing data information in a network having a plurality of network stations includes receiving, at a first of the plurality of network stations from a second of the plurality of...
6195652 Self-evolving database and method of using same  
Self-evolving indexing systems and methods store and retrieve information on multiple types of items. Indices evolve at least in part by providing subsequent users with summary comparison usage...
6182065 Method and system for weighting the search results of a database search engine  
A search engine searches a database containing a plurality of data entries wherein one or more of the data entries comprise a link to one or more others of the data entries. The search engine...
6182085 Collaborative team crawling:Large scale information gathering over the internet  
A distributed collection of web-crawlers to gather information over a large portion of the cyberspace. These crawlers share the overall crawling through a cyberspace partition scheme. They also...
6182063 Method and apparatus for cascaded indexing and retrieval  
Systems and methods consistent with the present invention respond to queries of stored information by receiving a query identifying desired information; providing the query as a search request to a...
6178419 Data access system  
A method of automatically creating a database on the basis of a set of category headings uses a set of keywords provided for each category heading. The keywords are used by a processing platform to...
6173287 Technique for ranking multimedia annotations of interest  
A technique for accessing an item of interest within a particular one of a plurality of stored representations of data is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by having a...
6169986 System and method for refining search queries  
A search engine is disclosed which suggests related terms to the user to allow the user to refine a search. The related terms are generated using query term correlation data which reflects the...
6169997 Method and apparatus for forming subject (context) map and presenting Internet data according to the subject map  
Currently, a web site stores Internet data indicating file access status for the files that have been accessed in response to requests from web browsers. Unfortunately, the Internet data are kept...
6163804 Network information searching apparatus and network information searching method  
A collecting process of data which is managed by each server on a network is first started by information collection means. Data collected by the information collection means is stored in an...
6148298 System and method for aggregating distributed data  
A method for aggregating distributed information from a plurality of data sources each having an address. A plurality of user criteria are received and site specific information describing...
6138113 Method for identifying near duplicate pages in a hyperlinked database  
A method is described for identifying pages that are near duplicates in a linked database. In the linked database, pages can have incoming links and outgoing links. Two pages are selected, a first...
6134553 Method for using region-sets to focus searches in hierarchical structures  
A method improves a search in a hierarchical structure by focusing the search to selected regions within the structure. The method defines one or more region-sets and uses the region-set(s) as...
6125361 Feature diffusion across hyperlinks  
A system and method for ranking wide area computer network (e.g., Web) pages by popularity in response to a query. Further, using a query and the response thereto from a search engine, the system...
6115718 Method and apparatus for predicting document access in a collection of linked documents featuring link proprabilities and spreading activation  
A method and apparatus for predicting document access within a collection of linked documents. The present invention utilizes a predictive technique known as "spreading activation" where document...
6112202 Method and system for identifying authoritative information resources in an environment with content-based links between information resources  
A system and method are provided for searching for desired items from a network of information resources. In particular, the system and method have advantageous applicability to searching for World...
6112203 Method for ranking documents in a hyperlinked environment using connectivity and selective content analysis  
In a computerized method, a set of documents is ranked according to their content and their connectivity by using topic distillation. The documents include links that connect the documents to each...
6105021 Thorough search of document database containing compressed and noncompressed documents  
A thorough search of a distributed document database, such as the Internet, is conducted according to a search request including search parameters and a search starting point. Initially, documents...
6105029 Retrieving network files through parallel channels  
A method and apparatus is provided in which a site selection program is operable to selectively initiate sample testing of data transfer speed of a plurality of sites containing a predetermined...