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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:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2006
Applicants:
Tao Yang, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Wei Wang, Edison, NJ (US);
Apostolos Gerasoulis, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Tao Yang, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Wei Wang, Edison, NJ (US);
Apostolos Gerasoulis, Highland Park, NJ (US);
Assignee:
IAC Search & Media, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Techniques to retrieve, rank and display data objects retrieved form a database are described. In particular, methods to assign a global ranking value to a data object based on a combination of that object's link-based (e.g., vector-space cluster analysis) and text-based (e.g., word frequency) ranks are described. Additional techniques to determine a set of concepts, topics or key words associated with each retrieved data objects are described.