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7412442 Augmenting search query results with behaviorally related items  
The results of search queries are augmented with behaviorally related items. Items that are behaviorally related to a particular search query may be identified by analyzing the item selection...
7412424 Third party certification of content in electronic commerce transactions  
A system for providing third-party certification of content in an electronic commerce transaction includes one or more servers operating on one or more computers. The one or more servers receive a...
7404141 System for creating and maintaining a website  
A web site creation and maintenance system permits distributed control and centralized management of a web site. The physical implementation of the web site resides on a database maintained by a...
7376641 Information retrieval from a collection of data  
A method of accessing information from a collection of data includes receiving a query, generating an inverse index of the collection of data and generating results to the query in conjunction with...
7349868 Pre-qualifying sellers during the matching phase of an electronic commerce transaction  
A system providing seller pre-qualification during the matching phase of an electronic commerce transaction includes a directory structure 44 comprising multiple hierarchically organized product...
7346560 Protecting content from unauthorized reproduction  
In one embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented system for protecting from unauthorized reproduction data associated with one or more products that is communicated over a...
7346559 System and method for automating association of retail items to support shopping proposals  
A shopping server proposal system includes a mechanism that enhances the online retailer's existing database system with the necessary information to provide the desired services. The existing...
7343372 Direct navigation for information retrieval  
A method of document retrieval is provided. The method includes assigning concept labels to documents contained in a collection according to grammar rules, receiving a query, converting the query...
7330829 Providing market feedback associated with electronic commerce transactions to sellers  
An electronic commerce system ( 10 ) providing market feedback to sellers includes a server ( 40 ) operating on one or more computers. The server ( 40 ) records query information associated with a...
7315891 Employee internet management device  
The present invention relates to a system for monitoring and maintaining an acceptable use policy for network communications. Such communications are monitored, stored and searched for the presence...
7299255 System and method for migrating data in an electronic commerce system  
A method for migrating product data within an electronic commerce system ( 10 ) includes monitoring requests for products by users ( 20 ) of a global content directory ( 42 ). The global content...
7272610 Knowledge management system  
The method and system of the present invention provides for a knowledge management and archival system on a network. A document to be archived is prepared as a machine readable and loaded to a...
7268791 Systems and methods for visualization of data sets containing interrelated objects  
A visualization of a set of related data items is accomplished by ranking a plurality of secondary data items with respect to their relationship to a principal data item. The set of related data...
7263515 Content enhancement in an electronic marketplace  
An electronic commerce system ( 10 ) includes a content enhancement module ( 47 ) that analyzes the product data stored in a seller database ( 32 ) using one or more rules and that identifies one...
7246322 Grid-like guided user interface for video selection and display  
A UI including a “Guide,” presenting a list of videos, having data fields relating to each entry, possibly including multiple data values for a single data field. When focusing on a single...
7243095 Prose feedback in information access system  
A method of generating prose in response to a query includes generating a text frame from the query and processing the text frame in conjunction with grammar rules to produce a prose rendition of...
7231607 Mosaic-like user interface for video selection and display  
A UI involving selection and display from a library of videos, including a “Mosaic” mode of operation, in which a primarily visual display is made of information about possible videos, with the...
7185088 Systems and methods for removing duplicate search engine results  
The present invention is directed toward efficiently locating desired information and, more specifically, to providing a system and method for removing unnecessary multiple references to a common...
7162453 Protecting content from unauthorized reproduction  
A system for watermarking data associated with one or more products includes one or more software components that collectively generate an algorithm for creating a particular pattern in data...
7136846 Wireless information retrieval  
A method of accessing information from a wireless device including processing a query and a wireless identifier received from the wireless device, searching a collection of data for a set of...
7127450 Intelligent discard in information access system  
A method of discarding results of a search of a collection of data includes parsing a query to produce fragments, searching the collection of data for matches to the fragments, determining a number...
7010747 Method and system for full text search of purchasable books that make the full text inaccessible to users  
A search expression is received. A first plurality of values is determined for a corresponding plurality of purchasable items. Each of the first plurality of values is based on a similarity between...
6985896 Browsing methods, articles and apparatus  
A browsing sequence for a plurality of items is provided. A tree which relates the plurality of items is also provided. The tree is non-unary and has a height of at least two. A user selection to...
6983276 Facilitating electronic commerce transactions using buyer profiles  
A system ( 10 ) for sorting search results according to a buyer profile ( 47 ) during the matching phase of an electronic commerce transaction includes a database containing a buyer profile ( 47 )...
6963867 Search query processing to provide category-ranked presentation of search results  
A search engine system displays the results of a multiple-category search according to levels of relevance of the categories to a user's search query. A query server receives a search query from a...
6903756 Merged images viewed via a virtual storage closet  
An e-commerce method involves on-line viewing of a first article through a linking node for virtual merging on another structure. A particular application of the invention is directed to a method...
6845484 Technique and method which dynamically generates various depth levels of abstracts for text based data sources on demand  
The present invention discloses a method for dynamically generating an abstract from a search result abstract retrieved from a search engine. Preferably embodied as a software program, the present...
6745238 Self service system for web site publishing  
A web site creation and maintenance system permits distributed control and centralized management of a web site. The physical implementation of the web site resides on a database maintained by a...
6745180 Data supply controlling device, method, and storage medium which facilities information searching by user  
A data supply controlling device comprises a data base for user data which stores user data matched with each user. The data base of user data can be queried in accordance with the user data so...
6728700 Natural language help interface  
A help interface capable of receiving user-defined queries in a natural language and selecting the most appropriate answer from a plurality of potential answers, includes facilities for parsing and...
6708161 System and method for selective database indexing  
A method for selectively indexing a database ( 32 ) includes selecting a set of fields ( 156 ) in the database ( 32 ). The selected fields ( 156 ) are located in one column ( 152 ) of a table ( 150...
6704729 Retrieval of relevant information categories  
Large stores of information are often organized in a hierarchical taxonomy to aid a search and retrieval of the information. The hierarchical taxonomy generally consists of related categories of...
6697800 System and method for determining affinity using objective and subjective data  
A method of determining a relationship between a search item provided by a user and a plurality of objective items, wherein each objective item in the plurality includes a plurality of objective...
6606619 Computer processes for selecting nodes to call to attention of a user during browsing of a hierarchical browse structure  
A computer-implemented process identifies specific nodes within a browse tree or other hierarchical browse structure based on historical actions of online users, and calls such nodes to the...
6571246 Automatic data collection and workflow management in a business process  
A method and system for data collection and workflow management in a business process using the Internet includes: defining a plurality of steps of a business process on a network; and...
6489968 System and method for exposing popular categories of browse tree  
A computer-implemented process identifies popular nodes (items and/or item categories) within a browse tree or other hierarchial browse structure based on historical actions of online users, and...
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