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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:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 12, 2007
Applicant:
Diane Hernek, Oakland, CA (US);
Inventor:
Diane Hernek, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
A9.com, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A technique for associating keywords with a set of items is provided. The present invention associates one or more keywords with terms found in the two or more characterization fields of an item. Each combination associates each keyword with at most one field. The present invention then calculates a keyword relevancy score for the set of potential keyword field combinations and identifies the keyword field combination with an optimal keyword relevancy score for the item. The method further includes displaying a list of results based on keyword relevancy scores for items.