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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:
Nov. 11, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2000
Katherine G. August, Matawan, NJ (US);
Chin-Sheng Chuang, Holmdel, NJ (US);
Michelle McNerney, Freehold, NJ (US);
Elizabeth A. Shriver, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Mark Hansen, Summit, NJ (US);
Ping-wen Ong, Middletown, NJ (US);
Daniel D. Lee, Hoboken, NJ (US);
Craig Nohl, Middletown, NJ (US);
Theodore Sizer, II, Little Silver, NJ (US);
Lucent Technologies Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
A system and method for information searching comprising determination of, in fine granularity, a Community of Interest (COI), further data mining in search results, using at least one of COI and expert preferences to identify important knowledge, formulation and manipulation of results, and summarization of search results into a document like entity with dynamic attributes described. More particularly, the invention relates to a system and method for providing interactive dialogue and iterative search functions to find information on a large network of servers such as the world wide web.