There are no indications that Microsoft plans to develop the technology outlined in the patent, as applications are filed all the time. Microsoft’s U.S.patent application, “Applying a Model of Persona to Search Results,” outlines a search system...
Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is where you go to file for trademarks that need to be protected. Thanks to the to the Trademark Electronic Application System (TEAS), trademark applications can be filed entirely online.
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.
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.
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.
There were some interesting new patent applications this week from Yahoo, Microsoft, and IBM, but nothing on the scale of the outpouring of intellectual property published and assigned to Google - I uncovered 15 new patent applications from the...
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...
Microsoft had two new patent applications published, including one which provides a means of suggesting alternative spellings for words, and another that interacts with searchers to help them construct queries.
A good number of white papers and patent applications published since the filing of this patent have looked at user queries and user behavior in fairly complex ways, such as chaining user queries together in sessions to identify user intent, and...
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...
Microsoft published a couple of patent applications, one which looks at using game playing to provide user rankings for web pages, and a method of providing contextual advertisements for non-textual content.
One of the newest patent applications published from Neven Vision, Image-based search engine for mobile phones with camera, lists some possibilities: It sounded like more might be happening than just putting pictures in order, so I tried to see if...
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...
Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. Very similar to another patent application from a couple of weeks ago, Method and system for finding and aggregating reviews for a product, and filed on...
Search Patent Applications: June 27, 2006 - Searching Amongst Malicious Web Microsoft's patent applications from the end of last week include ways for search engines to scan malicious web sites, clustering queries for more relevant searches, and...
Microsoft's patent applications from the end of last week include ways for search engines to scan malicious web sites, clustering queries for more relevant searches, and extracting feature and formatting information from pages.
Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data, and autolinking. Harik's name is on a very large percentage of the patent applications involving Gmail-type...
Yahoo adds two more patent applications which use concept units derived from searchers' queries to index the web. A couple of newly published patent applications from Yahoo build upon the methods described in those documents to categorize concepts...
