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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 18, 2007
Lawrence Wen-kai Shih, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam Sah, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Daniel S. Tarlow, Toronto, CA;
Beverly Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ryohei Takahashi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Rohrs, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lawrence Wen-Kai Shih, Mountain View, CA (US);
Adam Sah, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Daniel S. Tarlow, Toronto, CA;
Beverly Yang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ryohei Takahashi, Mountain View, CA (US);
Christopher Rohrs, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for exchanging information in accordance with a protocol. In one aspect, signals reporting user actions related to resources and ranking data ranking the resources based on the signals are exchanged in accordance with a protocol. The protocol defines types of user actions that can be reported by the signals, a format for specifying values for one or more of a set of predefined parameters for qualifying the user actions, a format for specifying one or more subscriber-specific parameters relating to the resources or the user actions, and a format for identifying resources to which the user actions are related using a namespace defined by the subscriber.