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7225181 Document searching apparatus, method thereof, and record medium thereof  
A document searching apparatus for searching a document group having a link relation for particular document is disclosed, that comprises a link importance assigning unit weighting the link...
7219090 Method and system for blending search engine results from disparate sources into one search result  
Provided is a method and system for blending a plurality of search engine results from a respective plurality of search sources into one search engine. A result list of entries is received from...
7216123 Methods for ranking nodes in large directed graphs  
Techniques for assigning ranks to nodes in a large linked database, such as world wide web or any other hypermedia database, partition the nodes so that the link matrix has a predominantly...
7216118 Resilient document queries  
A resilient query is provided that is used to search for a desired element in a similar document. A set of stable elements is predetermined or chosen and an original sequence of elements...
7216122 Information processing device and method, recording medium, and program  
In order to provide pages relating to a prescribed page to a user in a precise manner over the internet, a site page processor collects pages included at various sites, determines parent-child...
7216121 Search engine facility with automated knowledge retrieval, generation and maintenance  
A system for generating and retrieving relevant electronic information required by a user initiating an electronic search on the system. The system comprise a user-interactive search engine and a...
7213198 Link based clustering of hyperlinked documents  
Techniques for grouping hyperlinked documents are provided. Links near or in the neighborhood of the hyperlinked documents are analyzed in order to group the hyperlinked documents by topic. For...
7213024 Method and apparatus for accessing information within an electronic system  
A method of and apparatus for accessing information within an electronic system. The method includes formatting a searchable database into a directory tree structure, the directory tree structure...
7213062 Self-publishing network directory  
The invention relates to the interaction between the electronic directory and sites cataloged therein. One embodiment of a directory system includes a first and second conduit, a receiver function...
7213013 Method, apparatus, and system for remote client search indexing  
In one embodiment, a method is provided in which search indices are configured on a server. The search indices are associated with corresponding business components. The search indices are...
7209913 Method and system for searching and retrieving documents  
A system ( 100 ) for searching and retrieving documents includes a database ( 106 ), a memory device ( 108 ), a user interface device ( 102 ) and a controller ( 104 ). The database ( 106 ) stores...
7209928 Information organization and navigation by user-generated associative overlays  
Digital information objects in a digital information space are linked through the use of an overlay. A dynamic association between an accessed digital information object and each concept node in...
7203646 Distributed internet based speech recognition system with natural language support  
A speech-enabled internet based computing system includes a configurable speech recognition engine used for interacting with content on a web accessible page. The speech recognition engine is...
7203678 Reconfigurable query generation system for web browsers  
A reconfigurable web-browser compatible data query system. The invention provides an XML platform enabling web-based forms that query data modeled by data schemas. This platform comprises a...
7203673 Document collection apparatus and method for specific use, and storage medium storing program used to direct computer to collect documents  
A document collection apparatus collects a document for a community from a network. Before starting the collection, an initial document group is given as a starting point of the collection. A...
7200820 System and method for viewing search results  
A system and method for viewing search results is disclosed. A method of communicating a search result according to various views is disclosed. A method of displaying metadata associated with...
7200804 Method and apparatus for providing automation to an internet navigation application  
A software application for enabling creation and execution of an automated browser navigation sequence is provided. The software application comprises a session recording module for recording...
7200590 Data sharing  
A technique for sharing data is disclosed. The technique comprises performing a search in a first application to obtain a first search result, transferring search data associated with the search to...
7197497 Method and apparatus for machine learning a document relevance function  
Provided is a method and computer program product for determining a document relevance function for estimating a relevance score of a document in a database with respect to a query. For each of a...
7194454 Method for organizing records of database search activity by topical relevance  
A method for organizing records of a database by topical relevance generates statistics on relevance by monitoring search terms used and search paths traversed by a database user community. Records...
7194464 System and method for adapting an internet filter  
A system and method for updating a filtering system which controls access to a website/page between a local area network (LAN) and an Internet. The LAN includes an Internet gateway system coupled...
7188106 System and method for aggregating ranking results from various sources to improve the results of web searching  
A system and method for aggregating rankings from a plurality of ranking sources to generate a maximally consistent ranking by minimizing a distance measure. The ranking sources may be search...
7188117 Systems and methods for authoritativeness grading, estimation and sorting of documents in large heterogeneous document collections  
Systems and methods for determining the authoritativeness of a document based on textual, non-topical cues. The authoritativeness of a document is determined by evaluating a set of document content...
7185001 Systems and methods for document searching and organizing  
Systems and methods interactive document search, retrieval, categorization, and summarization are provided. A document organizer processor may analyze the content of documents, such as web pages...
7185092 Web site, information communication terminal, robot search engine response system, robot search engine registration method, and storage medium and program transmission apparatus therefor  
A web site 10 is provided in a communication network to enable the selective provision of appropriate information, by a site whereat only limited access is permitted, in consonance with the...
7181444 System and process for searching a network  
A system for searching a network for network based content related to a search query, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes an adapter for formatting the search query, a first database...
7181464 Forward-only evaluation for XPATH inverse query processing  
An inverse query engine that uses an instruction tree to represents the queries to be applied against input, instead of applying each query individually. Each node in the instruction tree...
7177862 Method and structure for federated web service discovery search over multiple registries with result aggregation  
A method (and structure) of querying one or more Web-based data sources, includes receiving a query statement including at least one query, parsing the input query to identify a target data source...
7177818 System and method for an interactive shopping news and price information service  
A system and associated method for assisting a user to efficiently query for product information and promotional information available from electronic commerce websites over the Internet includes a...
7177948 Method and apparatus for enhancing online searching  
A method and apparatus are provided for processing search results obtained in response to a user query. This may include examining document pointers returned by a search engine to identify a source...
7177870 Method of data block aggregation  
Techniques for providing blocks of data to a remote computer system for insertion into a computer-generated document residing on the remote computer system. The techniques include identifying, in...
7174054 Method and system for access to electronic images of text based on user ownership of corresponding physical text  
Methods and apparatus of the invention enable users to request access to one or more electronic images of pages in a physical text. When the user is identified and user ownership of the physical...
7174346 System and method for searching an extended database  
Once a search query is received from a user, a standard index is searched based on the search query. The standard index forms part of a set of replicated standard indexes having multiple instances...
7174513 System and method for advanced network viewing  
A system and method for advanced network viewing is disclosed. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a system and method for generating a representation of a linked site is disclosed. A...
7167545 Method and device for automatically issuing information using a search engine  
Information sought, with associated attributes, is stored in the form of data records. Embodiments provide for inquiry of search arguments for several attributes stored in a data record; comparison...
7165024 Inferring hierarchical descriptions of a set of documents  
A method automatically determines groups of words or phrases that are descriptive names of a small set of documents, as well as infers concepts in the small set of documents that are more general...
7165080 Method and apparatus for facilitating refinement of a search  
A receiver receives from a search engine search results consisting of at least one search item associated with at least one context item relating to the search item. A modifier modifies the search...
7165066 Systems and methods for associating system entities with descriptions  
The present invention provides methods and systems that provide users with the ability to navigate through information systems using natural language descriptions. In accordance with at least one...
7165091 Metasearching a plurality of queries and consolidating results  
A process and system for metasearching activated by a request executed by a user on a client device to request a metasearch engine to send a plurality of search queries to a plurality of search...
7165069 Analysis of search activities of users to identify related network sites  
A meta-data generator is described for generating meta-data relating to at least one Web site, the meta-data identifying, for a Web site providing at least one Web page, identification of, for...
7162686 System and method for navigating search results  
A method for navigating search results includes identifying a first occurrence and a second occurrence of at least one search term in a document. The method also includes generating a web page...
7162471 Content query system and method  
A content query management system at a content site employs a number of community and customized software search robots which collect content, such as messages from message boards, from other...
7162691 Methods and apparatus for indexing and searching of multi-media web pages  
A system for automatically enhancing Web pages with annotations expressed in Extensible Markup Language (XML) which describes the pages' multimedia content. Each Web page is parsed or scanned to...
7158971 Method for searching document objects on a network  
Methods for searching relationships between and among documents are detailed. One method includes steps for selecting one or more initial search items from a group consisting of: (a) document...
7158966 User intent discovery  
a system 100 that facilitates determining a user's intent given a user search query comprises a search engine that is employed to search over a collection of objects within a data store to...
7159011 System and method for managing an online message board  
A database management system employs a number of community and customized software search robots. The robots interact with subscribers to access, retrieve and post content according to content...
7158961 Methods and apparatus for estimating similarity  
A similarity engine generates compact representations of objects called sketches. Sketches of different objects can be compared to determine the similarity between the two objects. The sketch for...
7155433 Mapping of client application variable to database storage location free of allocation to any particular variable  
An apparatus in one example comprises a management component that handles information storage to one or more storage locations of a database. The one or more storage locations comprise one or more...
7154478 Terminal and method for remotely controlling device using the same  
Device names and device control parameters are registered in a content table of a terminal. These device names and control parameters are each associated in the content table with partial images...
7152058 Apparatus for and method of selectively retrieving information and enabling its subsequent display  
A system for reliably retrieving information which may be in any one of several possible formats and for subsequent display of that information in any one of several possible formats. User-defined...