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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:
Jun. 13, 2006
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2001
Applicants:
Umesh Madan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Geary Eppley, Sammamish, WA (US);
Inventors:
Umesh Madan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Geary Eppley, Sammamish, WA (US);
Assignee:
Drugstore. com, Bellevue, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In a network providing for electronic commerce, a computer system provides a user with access to a set of electronic commerce pages, category pages and databases for locating products electronically. To locate products electronically, the user performs a search using multiple words. The search terms in the search request are converted to canonical phonetic forms, and a phonetic keyword search based on the canonical phonetic forms is performed. The phonetic keyword search is then used to generate search results.