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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2010
Zhaowei Jiang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xavier Legros, Woodside, CA (US);
Ronald H. Jones, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan Panchadsaram, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zhaowei Jiang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xavier Legros, Woodside, CA (US);
Ronald H. Jones, Jr., Mountain View, CA (US);
Ryan Panchadsaram, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention outlines a genuine entity following system that also addresses data source limitation. When reviewing entity-related objects in web content, a web user designates one or more entities to follow in real time. More particularly, the present invention is directed through strategic deployment of a dynamic crawler upon selection of a 'follow' pointer over an object in a web browser such that a web user can automatically designate entities to be followed and receive alerts at predetermined temporal intervals when new information regarding such designated entities becomes available. A web entity engine of the present invention is designed to discover trending entities at any given time while generating output activity (i.e., signal) streams for this entity.