Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is where you go to file for trademarks that need to be protected. When you've encountered what you believe to be a clear case of trademark infringement online, the two immediate steps for you to take should...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
The process described in the next patent application provides a way for a user to set up their browser interface so that dynamic information may be added to, and updated on their browser interface from different sites, regardless of whether they...
With Google quiet, a recent flurry of activity burst out at the US Patent and Trademark Office from Microsoft and IBM, including the granting of a patent on a music search engine, another on searching recorded voice, and patents (and patent...
News.com reports that the Google Toolbar patent case is to proceed after Google's request for a summary judgment was denied. Anyway, Bill really digs deep into these algorithms and patent applications with links and abstracts pulled of content and...
Seven Recently Published Patent Applications from Microsoft Deal with Computation of Web Page Ranking, Calculating a Document's Importance, and Search Spam Detection and More Google's Patent Application for Click-to-Call Advertising Published
Patent watchers might be interested in reviewing seven of recently published patent applications from Microsoft that deal with computing a web page ranking, calculating a documents "importance," web search spam, and more.
Unlike patent applications (which are what usually get people talking) this is intellectual property that has been officially awarded to Google. Patent and Trademark Office today that Google was awarded a patent today that involves technology...
A Selection of Recently Awarded Search Related Patents & Recently Published Search Related Patent Applications ResourceShelf, February 2004 http://www.resourceshelf.com/archives/2004_02_01_resourceshelfextra_archive.html/#107565428617083131
Web Group Backs Microsoft in Patent Suit. For example, when you submit a search API request for Google Hacks author Rael Dornfest, you get some header information, and then a list with elements that look like this:
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The ability to hit patent databases, music reviews, legal resources and other great specialty sources can all be found. If your search terms appear in the phrase dictionary, then AltaVista automatically translates your request into a phrase search.
