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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:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2005
Applicants:
Tomasz Imielinski, Princeton, NJ (US);
Rohit Mittal, Edison, NJ (US);
Scot Gregory Zola, Edison, NJ (US);
Inventors:
Tomasz Imielinski, Princeton, NJ (US);
Rohit Mittal, Edison, NJ (US);
Scot Gregory Zola, Edison, NJ (US);
Assignee:
IAC Search & Media, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30182 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method for presenting factoids includes receiving a user query concerning an object, providing object information associated with the object for presentation to a user, and providing one or more factoids pertaining to the object for presentation to the user. The factoids are presented independently from the object information, and each of the factoids indicates at least one special characteristic of the object in a distinct area.