International Business Machines Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Aol Inc.

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

At+t Corp.

Oath Inc.

Rakesh Agrawal

Ramakrishnan Srikant

John Christopher Shafer

Ariel Fuxman

Steven Miles Greenberg

Alan Keister

Jennifer Granito

Michael Sommers

Christopher Armstrong

Lark Dunham

Carol A Glover

Gerald George Kiernan

Roberto Javier Bayardo

Anitha Kannan

Sreenivas Gollapudi

Ching-Tien Ho

Samuel Ieong

Sunita Sarawagi

Kyuseok Shim

Dimitrios Gunopulos

Manish Mehta

Yirong Xu

Bruce Gilbert Lindsay

Arun N Swami

Amit Radheshyam Somani

Panayiotis Tsaparas

Raja Palani Velu

Krishnaram Kenthapadi

Dieter Helmut Roller

Mohamed Zait

Frank Leymann

Qifa Ke

Andreas Arning

Prabhakar Raghavan

Prakash Sikchi

Stelios Paparizos

Zhimin Chen

Alexandre Valentinovich Evfimievski

Christos Faloutsos

Edward Leo Wimmers

Lawrence William Colagiovanni

Giuseppe Psaila

Hoa Nguyen

Juliana Freire De Lima E Silva

Partha Pratim Talukdar

Nikhil Rasiwasia

Brian Scott Lent

Linda Gail De Michiel

King-Ip Lin

Harpreet Singh Sawhney

Mayank Bawa

Kannan Achan

Nimrod Megiddo

Myron Dale Flickner

Jehoshua Bruck

Paul Miller Bird

Roland Seiffert

Byron Edward Dom

Ashish Gupta

Walid Rjaibi

Ralf Rantzau

Narain H Gehani

Jorma J Rissanen

Soumen Chakrabarti

Tyrone W A Grandison

Mohammed J Zaki

Linda Gail DeMichiel

Quoc Vu

William Robinson Equitz

Krishnaram N G Kenthapadi

Dmitri Asonov

Johannes Ernst Gehrke

Karin Kailing

Scott Ian Logan

Shiby Thomas

Jagannathan Srinivasan

Murat Kantarcioglu

Yaping Li

Andrew Brian Goldberg

Panagiotis Papadimitriou

Lise C Getoor

Alvin K Cheung

Stefan Schoenauer

Nathaniel Dion Parrish

Srikant Ramakrishnan

Collecting and distributing information related to recent content publication activity of an instant messaging (IM) user provides other users in a network with timely, relevant information about people known to the user or within the same social network. A user participating in a social network can quickly and efficiently perceive new information related to other users (referred to as co-users) in a social network by reviewing the co-users' recent content publication activity. A user may be made able to do so without requiring the co-user to send a communication directly to the user regarding the new facts or new content, and also without requiring the user to actively browse or request information about the co-user.

Systems and methods for distributing published content among users of a social network

Distributing content markings includes receiving, from a first entity, marking content corresponding to Internet content and author presentation instructions associated with the marking content. When a request to view the Internet or marking content is received from a second entity, the received author presentation instructions are used to determine whether the second entity is approved to view marking content associated with the requested Internet content. Dependent on whether the second entity is approved to view the marking content, presentation of the information associated with the marking content concurrently with the requested Internet content is enabled.

Internet content marking

Techniques are disclosed herein for providing a custom search engine. In one aspect, a first search query is received from a requestor. First search results contain search result items that match the first search query are Obtained. A least one sub-query is generated from the first search results. The generating is based on rules for a particular custom search engine. Second search results that match the sub-query are then obtained. A search result set is formed from a corpus that includes the first search results and the second search results. The generating of the search result set is based on the rules for the particular custom search engine. The search result set is provided to the requestor. In one aspect an interface for designing a custom search engine is provided. The interface allows the designer to specify the layout of a search results page.

Customized search

Indicating recent content publication activity by a user

Techniques are disclosed herein for providing a custom search engine. In one aspect, a first search query is received from a requestor. First search results contain search result items that match the first search query are obtained. A least one sub-query is generated from the first search results. The generating is based on rules for a particular custom search engine. Second search results that match the sub-query are then obtained. A search result set is formed from a corpus that includes the first search results and the second search results. The generating of the search result set is based on the rules for the particular custom search engine. The search result set is provided to the requestor. In one aspect an interface for designing a custom search engine is provided. The interface allows the designer to specify the layout of a search results page.

While a document, such as an e-book, is read by a user on a computing device such as an e-reader, concept phrases are extracted from the document. The extracted concept phrases may be words or phrases that match known concept phrases such as headings. Based on a universal concept phrase graph that includes nodes for each known concept phrase, core concept phrases are determined for the document. These core concept phrases are associated with nodes of the universal concept phrase graph that are located within a predetermined distance of nodes that represent the concept phrases extracted from the document. Each core concept phrase is combined with one or more of the concept phrases to generate multiple queries. These queries are submitted to search engines, and indicators of documents from the corresponding search results are presented to the user with the original document that is being read.

Identifying similar documents using graphs

Systems, methods, and computer storage media are provided for generating rich navigational study aids for electronic books. For a particular section of interest in a document, one or more related sections for providing additional context to the particular section are determined. The related sections are ranked based on a score indicating significance to the particular section. Based on a user's information processing preference, a set of ranked navigational links to each related section is presented to the user for additional context related to the particular section.

Navigational aid for electronic books and documents

Methods and systems for automatically synthesizing product information from multiple data sources into an on-line catalog are disclosed, and in particular, for automatically synthesizing the product information based on attribute-value pairs. Information for a product may be obtained, via entity extraction, feed ingestion, and other mechanisms, from a plurality of structured and unstructured data sources having different taxonomies and schemas. Product information may additionally or alternatively be obtained or derived based on popularity data. The product information may be cleansed, segmented and normalized. The product information may be clustered so closest products, attribute names and attribute values are associated. A representative value for an attribute name may be determined, and the on-line catalog may be updated so that entries are comprehensive, meaningful and useful to a catalog user. Updates from at least 500 million different data sources may be scheduled to occur as frequently as several times daily.

Product synthesis from multiple sources

Product images are used in conjunction with textual descriptions to improve classifications of product offerings. By combining cues from both text and image descriptions associated with products, implementations enhance both the precision and recall of product description classifications within the context of web-based commerce search. Several implementations are directed to improving those areas where text-only approaches are most unreliable. For example, several implementations use image signals to complement text classifiers and improve overall product classification in situations where brief textual product descriptions use vocabulary that overlaps with multiple diverse categories. Other implementations are directed to using text and images 'training sets' to improve automated classifiers including text-only classifiers. Certain implementations are also directed to learning a number of three-way image classifiers focused only on 'confusing categories' of the text signals to improve upon those specific areas where text-only classification is weakest.

Accurate text classification through selective use of image data

Techniques are disclosed herein for providing a custom search engine. In one aspect, a first search query is received from a requestor. First search results contain search result items that match the first search query are obtained. A least one sub-query is generated from the first search results. The generating is based on rules for a particular custom search engine. Second search results that match the sub-query are then obtained. A search result set is formed from a corpus that includes the first search results and the second search results. The generating of the search result set is based on the rules for the particular custom search engine. The search result set is provided to the requester. In one aspect an interface for designing a custom search engine is provided. The interface allows the designer to specify the layout of a search results page.

A framework is provided for composing texts about objects with structured information about these objects, and thus disclosed are methodologies for linking information from at least two data sources&#x2014;one comprising a plurality of documents comprising text pertaining to at least one object, and one comprising a plurality of structured records comprising at least one characteristic of the at least one object, each characteristic comprising one property name and an associated property value corresponding to the property name for the at least one object&#x2014;by determining one or more instance-based traits for each object in both data sources and associating at least one record with at least one document that refers to each object, each trait comprising one or more characteristics that identifiably distinguish each object from all other objects.

Composing text and structured databases

When executed, a computer program product generates a graphical user interface that renders results that are responsive to a search query of a rich media file. The graphical user interface includes a chronological representation of the rich media file, one or more occurrence markers along the chronological representation corresponding to actual occurrences of a desired term at an indicated chronological location in the rich media file, and an execution icon configured to launch a rich media application that renders a relevant portion that is responsive to the search query.

Visually-represented results to search queries in rich media content

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Rakesh Agrawal