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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:
Apr. 09, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1998
Amitabh Kumar Singhal, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp., New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A meta-search engine apparatus and method for searching distributed networks using a plurality of search devices. The meta-search engine apparatus sends search queries to a plurality of search engines and compiles the results obtained from each of these search engines into a single ranked list. The results obtained from each of the search engines includes a listing of the titles of found sources of the search terms, or related search terms, and a summary of the source. The compilation and ranking is based primarily on the occurrence of search terms, or related search terms, in the titles and summaries but may also be based on, for example, relative weights given to each search engine, the number of search engines returning the same source as a result of a search, weighting of sections of the results obtained from the search engines, and the like.
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