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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:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 31, 2001
Gregory S. Pass, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Frank Wood, Lowpoint, IL (US);
America Online, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Abstract
Conducting a search for both text and images includes receiving input, which may include one or more search criteria for at least one of searchable image characteristics and text terms. The received input may be compared with searchable image characteristics and text terms that have been indexed in a single format for multiple stored images and text segments. A search result is produced based on the comparison. The searchable image characteristics and text terms may be indexed in a uniform data format that enables a search engine to use the same search methodology to search for both images and text. The uniform data format may be an inverted index data format. The produced search result may include identifiers for one or more images and text segments that have been retrieved for display in a ranked manner based on similarity metrics.