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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2014
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Patrick F. Riley, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ramanathan V. Guha, Los Altos, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for generating alerts based on results received from one or more custom search engines. In an embodiment, the present invention generates alerts based on custom search engines by (1) receiving one or more alert specifications including a custom search engine identifier; (2) receiving at least one current result from the identified custom search engines; (3) determining one or more itemized alert elements based on the at least one current result; and (4) transmitting a signal representing the one or more itemized alert elements to a user via a communication network.