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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. 28, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2005
Chris Barton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shumeet Baluja, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Avichal Garg, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Eric L. Davis, San Jose, CA (US);
Fritz Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
Niels Provos, Mountain View, CA (US);
Chris Barton, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shumeet Baluja, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Avichal Garg, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Eric L. Davis, San Jose, CA (US);
Fritz Schneider, San Francisco, CA (US);
Niels Provos, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Users may be protected from scumware included on or associated with web sites indexed by a search engine. The search engine may, for instance take the presence of scumware into account when ranking or determining whether a document matches a search query or provide information with search results that indicates that a particular search result link may be associated with scumware. In one implementation, a search engine generates search results for a search query to obtain documents that are relevant to the search query. The search engine may then format the search results as a web page that includes visual indicators associated with those of the relevant documents that have been determined to be associated with scumware.