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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1998
Filed:
May. 12, 1995
Yoav Shoham, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for adaptively traversing a network of linked textual or multi-media information utilizes one or more heuristics to explore the network and present information to a user. An exploration or search heuristic governs activity while examining and exploring the linked information resources, while a presentation heuristic controls presentation of a manageable amount of information resources to the user. The system and method accept relevance feedback from the user which is used to refine future search, retrieval, and presentation of information resources. The user may present an information query of various degrees of specificity or the system and method may search and present information resources based entirely on relevance feedback from the user.