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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:
Nov. 08, 2016
Filed:
May. 10, 2011
Eckart Walther, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Qi LU, Saratoga, CA (US);
David Ku, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kevin Lee, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chung-man Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ali Diab, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Eckart Walther, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Qi Lu, Saratoga, CA (US);
David Ku, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kevin Lee, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chung-Man Tam, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ali Diab, Menlo Park, CA (US);
EXCALIBUR IP, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Computer systems and methods allow users to annotate content items found in a corpus such as the World Wide Web. Annotations, which can include any descriptive and/or evaluative metadata related to a document, are collected from a user and stored in association with that user. Users are able to annotate and view their annotations for any document they encounter while interacting with the corpus, including hits returned in a search of the corpus. Users are also able to search their annotations or to limit searches to documents they have annotated. Metadata from annotations can also be aggregated across users and aggregated metadata applied in generating search results.