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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. 22, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2007
Kenneth Henderson, Folsom, CA (US);
Kenneth Henderson, Folsom, CA (US);
Intuit Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a system and method for detecting trends in network-based content, such as trends within the content of various network locations, are described. The system and method for detecting trends in network-based content may include a network-based trend service that enables a user to create a trend profile. The trend profile may include, a search target, a sampling frequency or schedule, and/or one or more thresholds. To determine the level of network-based activity for a search target, the network-based trend service may determine which network locations of a search domain contain the search target. The network-based trend service may determine the number of instances of the search target found within each search result. The network-based trend service may capture data samples that may include the total number of search results and/or the total instance count and may determine one or more trends from the data samples.