One of the more notable places you can find direct similarities between the NSTIC system and Google is in the Google patent applications. However, and even more insidious is the application of this Identity Ecosystem to the Search Paradigm.
Microsoft’s U.S.patent application, “Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results,” outlines a search system that would allow users to search the web as their favorite celebrity. There are no indications that Microsoft plans to develop the...
Patent and Trademark Office. Patent and Trademark Office. Patent and Trademark Office that protects you even further and makes your trademark incontestable. One way to increase the strength of your trademark is to file an application to register...
Local.com Gets Location-based Search Patent Apartment Guide Launches Mobile GPS Search Application Users are now allowed to download applications designed specifically for the device. This has generated a slew of location-based social networks (as...
Yahoo Registers Meal Search Patent Posted by Frank Watson Jun 28, 2008 Bill Slawski, of SEO by The Sea, has uncovered another patent filing. This time Yahoo is applying for a patent for meal search technology.
Google Patent Details Mobile Search Plans Now Google is opening up the application to 3rd party developers. If the phone has GPS, the Maps application on the phone sends the GPS coordinates along with the cell ID to the Google location server.
Thanks to the to the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), trademark applications can be filed entirely online. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is where you go to file for trademarks that need to be protected.
Techdirt considers the impact that a couple of recent Yahoo patent applications filed for in February, and published last week (which I wrote about at SEO by the Sea), might have upon the growth of social networks.
No mention of Google Office applications are made here, and the patent application was originally filed over a year ago, but the thought crosses my mind that it might be helpful to copy settings from Word to Writely, or from Excel to Google...
Search engine staff know that their patent applications will be read by competitors and SEOs," he continued. You don't actually have to use the features in the patent to be granted a patent, nor does anyone have to disclose all features in a patent...
New Microsoft patent applications include one that attempts to identify web spam based upon signals within the content of a page, another looks at ways to search using pattern matching and relevance to answer specific questions, a third...
IBM filed a patent application for building social networks within a business organization, and was granted a patent for a method of checking pages shown in search results for viruses. Microsoft had two new patent applications published, including...
New Microsoft patent applications include one that attempts to identify web spam based upon signals within the content of a page, another looks at ways to search using pattern matching and relevance to answer specific questions, a third describes...
One of the inventors listed in the following patent application, Tomas Gunnarsson, is a Google Desktop Software Engineer according to a post he made in the Google Blog on a "quick search" for Desktop Search.
This last week's patent applications involving search all seem to focus upon users of search engines, and finding ways to fulfill intentions behind searches. The first of Outland Research's patent applications reranks search results based upon the...
There are a number of new patent applications from Yahoo, including one that utilizes concept networks to understand the intention behind a user's query; another describing an addition to a user interface that lets a searcher define the context...
Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. The following patent applications primarily look at local search, though some of the processes described...
New Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Near You Google files patents for shopping offline with online assistance, a secondary map in Google Maps, and an updated review aggregator.
Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. Today's search podcast covers a report of $800 million lost to click fraud...
Search Patent Applications: July 5, 2006 - Google Coming to a Shopping Mall Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog...
