According to a blog post by Bill Slawski at SEO By the Sea that references US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) filings, IBM has agreed to give Google 188 granted patents and another 29 pending patent applications.
Described as “an inside peek at how Google groups keywords by concept,” the initial Google Sets patent filing from April 2003 was the brainchild of two rockstar engineers from the early days at Google.
In other words, Cygnus' patent describes features similar to those of Windows Explorer and Apple's Finder—these applications use scaled-down previews to represent the actual documents being browsed by users.
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.
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. Microsoft's patent applications allow a user to further refine results based upon user...
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...
US Patent Application 20060143208 Yahoo adds a patent application for search results PPC advertising, and managing blog content. US Patent Application 20060143080 US Patent Application 20060139375 This first Yahoo patent application went quickly...
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. In recent months, Google has had patent applications published on the use of predictive queries in the context of making it easier to...
New Search Patent Applications: May 23, 2006 - Yahoo Wallets, Microsoft Answers, and Google Phrases New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains
New Search Patent Applications: June 5, 2006 - Taking Care of Web Decay, Dead Links, and Parked Domains Yahoo MyWeb Gets New Look, Easier Browsing Other Submission Systems Remain Independent =================== In This Issue ===================
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...
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. Systems presents a human powered search, which uses community to tell it when to update pages, and which keywords to associate with those pages.
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! I did come up with something close in a patent application that is part of a larger set of refinements to a search user interface in Universal search interface...
