Amdocs Software Systems Limited

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Heystaks Technology Limited

University of Ireland

Today's Pages Limited

Changing World Limited

Barry Joseph Smyth

Paul Cotter

Nigel David Hanby

Maurice Coyle

Peter Briggs

Evelyn Balfe

Elizabeth Ann McKenna

Keith Bradley

Richard Macartan Humphreys

Michael Kennedy

James Lynch

Oisin Boydell

Owen Phelan

Lorraine McGinty

Oisín Boydell

Kevin McCarthy

Sandra Garcia-Esparza

Elizabeth Ann Mckenna

Content such as user interface items provided to a user during a session of an interactive application is personalized. One or more environmental context attribute values for the session are determined. Responsive to a request for content, for at least one item of the content, each of the environmental context attribute values are mapped to respective values indicating a users level of interest in the item for the environmental context attribute values. Content is retrieved from a content database and the content is personalized as a function of the users level of interest in the item for the environmental context attribute values before being returned to the application.

Personalising content provided to a user

A system has a primary server storing search data sets ('staks') and a linked social network server.

Searching system having a server which automatically generates search data sets for shared searching

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for segmenting a content stream. In use, a content stream associated with an event is identified. Additionally, user generated content associated with the content stream is identified. Further, a timing of one or more key events within the content stream is determined, based on the user generated content. Further still, the one or more key events are identified, based on the user generated content. Also, the content stream is segmented, utilizing the one or more key events and the timing of the one or more key events. In addition, a subset of the user generated content and a subset of the one or more key events is associated with a segment of the content stream. Furthermore, a search index associated with the segment of the content stream is generated, utilizing the subset of the user generated content and the subset of the one or more key events. Further still, a search query is received from a user. Also, search results are provided to the user in response to the search query, utilizing the search index associated with the segment of the content stream.

System, method, and computer program for segmenting a content stream

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining information associated with an extracted portion of content. In use, a user is identified. Additionally, content generated by the user is identified. Additionally, a portion of the content is extracted. Further, information associated with the extracted portion of the content is determined. Further still, the determined information is added to a profile of the user. Also, an action is initiated, based on the profile of the user.

System, method, and computer program for determining information associated with an extracted portion of content

A searching system may include a primary server with interfaces for communication with databases or with underlying search engines. The primary server may be adapted to receive a search query from a client under instructions from a user; and retrieve search results and transmit the results as a response to the client. The primary server may be adapted to store search data sets of relevant results for queries by users who are member of the set. The primary server may be adapted to select a search data set of which the user for the query is a member, and to use said search data set in providing the response to the query. The primary server may be adapted to download data concerning the selected search data set to the user. The primary server may be adapted to automatically update the search data set according to the results selected by the user.

Systems and methods for user interactive social metasearching

A real time information feed system comprises an interface to receive a real time information feed and a data mining engine for retrieving data concerning a subscriber. A recommendation engine automatically modifies the real time information feed according to the mined data; and a subscriber interface outputs the modified real time information for delivery to the subscriber. The data mining engine is adapted to mine data in a real time communication medium used by the subscriber, such as a micro-blogging service. The data mining engine comprises an indexer for mining and indexing the real time information feed and the subscriber data to provide a plurality of indexes; and to generate vectors representing the separate indexes and to compare the vectors to modify. The data mining engine and the recommendation engine combine recommendation and information retrieval settings from a plurality of online and offline sources to produce a single amalgamated list of results to harness a user's usage patterns and social graph activity on a social network or updating service, that further allows the generation of user profiles as part of a media recommendation system.

Real time information feed processing

A method for personalizing content such as user interface items provided to a user during a session of an interactive application is disclosed. One or more environmental context attribute values for the session are determined. Responsive to a request for content, for at least one item of the content, each of the environmental context attribute values ate mapped to respective values indicating a users level of interest in the item for the environmental context attribute values. Content is retrieved from a content database and the content is personalized as a function of the users level of interest in the item for the environmental context attribute values before being returned to the application.

In an information retrieval method a meta search engine receives a user information query in the form of key words; and submits the query to a search engine, and also submits the query to a snippet database storing previously selected results, indexed by a snippet index of terms included in snippets of the results when they were previously selected. The meta search engine then receives results from the search engine; and receives a response from the snippet database. It merges the results from the search engine with those from the snippet database; and submits re-ranked results to the user. The snippet database processes in parallel with the underlying search engine. The meta search engine also monitors which results of the returned re-ranked results are selected by the user, and updates the snippet index accordingly.

Meta search engine

An internet website which presents a hierarchical menu structure to users includes a personalization engineto automatically modify the menu structure for each user at least according to that user's previous browsing history at the site. In one embodiment the engineprovides, as menu options for a selected menu page of the hierarchical menu, a plurality of the most probable links which the user may wish to reach from the selected menu page. In another embodiment there are provided, as additional menu options for a particular menu page, a plurality of links which are similar, as determined by meeting a predetermined similarity metric, to menu options present on the particular menu page other than through meeting the similarity metric.

Intelligent internet website with hierarchical menu

A conversational recommender system retrieves k cases () and generates a structure for user feedback (). The structure includes a list of critique units for each of which the user can specify a value range. It also generates compound critiques, each being a combination of features and value ranges presented together. An explanation of a compound critique can be generated in response to a user request. The system determines (), from one cycle of a session to the next, if a preference has been carried. If so, a re-focus function implementing diversity is used for retrieval in the next cycle. If not, a refine function implementary similarity-based retrieval is used for the next cycle of the session.

Dynamic diversity-enhanced similarity retrieval system and method

A meta search engine receives a query from a user, and submits adapted queries to n search engines. The results are adapted and combined to provide a result set R'. In parallel, the meta search engine accesses a selected hit matrix populated with values for correspondence of queries q-qwith web pages p-p. These values are the number of 'hits' for pervious searches. The pages retrieved from a row for qare combined with the search engine results to provide a final result but which is ranked according to previous search experience. The hit matrix may be dynamically selected according to a user community. The query need not exactly match a hit matrix query as rows can be selected according to similarity to the current query qwith weightings applied.

Information retrieval

A data processing method and system for retrieving a subset of k items from a database of n items (n&#x2267;k) firstly determines a limited set of bk items (b&#x3e;1) in the database which have the greatest similarity to an input query t according to a given similarity function S. A result subset is then constructed by including as a first member the item having the greatest similarity S to the query t, and iteratively selecting each successive member of the subset as that remaining item of the bk items having the highest quality Q, where Q is a given function of both similarity to the input query t and relative diversity RD with respect to the items already in the results subset. In this way the diversity of the results subset is greatly increased relative to a simple selection of the k most similar items to the query t, with only a modest additional increase in processing requirements.

System and method for retreiving database items with increased diversity

A method of providing information in a directory system comprising a directory for company information, goods and services; a communications network; a directory computer operated by a directory provider; a plurality of search computers operated by enquirers which search computers are connected within the network; and a plurality of active content providers operating active content provider computers, at least some of which are connected to the directory computer. The company information, goods and services are classified by unique identifiers. Lists of goods and services and company information are provided as provider content from both active and passive content providers. These are stored in a provider database with unique identifiers. The directory computer on request downloads to the search computer one or more queries to allow the search computer specify the search correctly and then the directory computer downloads the search result. The active content provider computers update the search from time to time. The purpose is to provide a comprehensive listing of useful information to an enquirer in an easily searched form while simultaneously allowing the active content providers to tailor the information supplied.

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Barry Joseph Smyth