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While BT has a claim on 5,600 patents and patent applications, only six of those patents are coming into play for these allegations. Apple has won a major patent victory over HTC and Android as the U.S.
As a result, current functionality and future business plans shouldn’t be inferred from our patent applications. Based on the language in the patent, I’ll make a few educated guesses: Despite Facebook’s denial that the data is used to target...
Local.com Gets Location-based Search Patent Users are now allowed to download applications designed specifically for the device. Location-based social networking is projected to generate worldwide revenues of $3.3 billion by 2013, according to ABI...
Bill Slawski Uncovers Patent Info About Google Quality Scoring"A trio of patent applications from Google look at estimating the likelihood that an advertisement is a good one, in a method that goes beyond counting click-through-rates (CTR...
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.
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.
Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search.
New Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 - Google Patent Filings by the Dozen Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search.
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. This first Yahoo patent application went quickly from filing to publication in four months. US Patent Application 20060143254
Yahoo adds two more patent applications which use concept units derived from searchers' queries to index the web. In recent months, Google has had patent applications published on the use of predictive queries in the context of making it easier to...
Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases A number of patent applications published last week proved intriguing. Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) filings offered us additions to Google...
A number of patent applications published last week proved intriguing. Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) filings offered us additions to Google...
A number of patent applications published last week proved intriguing. These next two patent applications describe a toolbar addon and active x controls that could act as a ecommerce wallet, helping someone using a browser by filling out checkout...
The strong showing from the two companies is joined by a Yahoo patent on pay-for-placement bidding, a Doubleclick patent on media ads, a patent application from Harris Corporation on reranking results based upon vocabulary words, patent...
Search Engines Forum Spotlight - Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: EarthLink a Google patent on controlling access to documents based on URLs, another on personalizing results; Gateway's social tagging-like...
Bill Slawski has an excellent write up on web spam through the eyes of patent applications and published papers. Anyway, Bill really digs deep into these algorithms and patent applications with links and abstracts pulled of content and video...
Gary Price reports on three new Microsoft patent applications that were published yesterday. Upon receiving a proposed network advertisement from an advertiser, a publisher determines whether to automatically approve the proposed advertisement for...
