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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2006
Applicants:

Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jonathan Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Edward Ho, San Jose, CA (US);

Samantha M. Tripodi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jonathan Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Edward Ho, San Jose, CA (US);

Samantha M. Tripodi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Method and computer program product for locating events in-context over the Internet are disclosed. The method includes receiving a document from a user, wherein the document comprises one or more attributes, analyzing the one or more attributes of the document in accordance with a set of contextual information to generate one or more search terms, searching for events related to the one or more attributes of the document using the one or more search terms, and presenting the events to the user.


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