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Search Patent Applications: October 6, 2006 - Google Takes Over the Patent 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...
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 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.
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. US Patent Application 20060143197 US Patent Application 20060143254 US Patent Application 20060143096 US Patent Application 20060143158
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.
New Search Patent Applications: June 19, 2006 - Autolinking, and Better Advertising through Deletion Predictions Four patent applications from Google describe fighting spam in emails, providing product review searches, moving large amounts of data...
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...
In recent months, Google has had patent applications published on the use of predictive queries in the context of making it easier to work with mobile devices, in applications like Google Suggest, and in a version of Google Suggest system for...
US Patent Application 20060112079 US Patent Application 20060112066 US Patent 7,054,857 US Patent Application 20060117003 Two Amazon employees have had a patent application published which may correct misspellings in queries in order to return...
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. 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...
Some new patents and patent applications from the last week cover a wide range of search related topics. The first patent application I have listed for Yahoo is under their name in the US Patent and Trademark assignment database.
patents and patent applications to see if I could find something similar to what Yahoo! This patent application was filed April 5, 2004 and published December 9, 2004, earlier than Google's Anticipated query generation and processing in a search...
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...
The second is named More Patents and Patent Apps for Microsoft and Yahoo which has five links to patent applications, mostly from MSN. We present an analysis of a large blog search engine query log, exploring a number of angles such as query intent...
He has his "Search Patent Watch" expanding on several patent applications and awarded patents from Yahoo and Microsoft. Yahoo Patent Applications: Microsoft Patent Applications: Query-based snippet clustering for search result grouping
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
