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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.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Thomas M. Annau, San Carlos, CA (US);

Gregory B. Lindahl, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Samuel Makonnen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Markson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Keith Peters, San Francisco, CA (US);

Robert Michael Saliba, San Francisco, CA (US);

Al Sary, Richmond, CA (US);

Rich Skrenta, San Carlos, CA (US);

Dan Swartz, Mountain View, CA (US);

Robert N. Truel, San Carlos, CA (US);

Timothy Walters, Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/276 (2013.01); G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30448 (2013.01); G06F 17/30477 (2013.01); G06F 17/30672 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); G06F 17/30973 (2013.01);
Abstract

A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least a search operator in a search query, the search operator being associated with a category of content from a social network site. Also, a web server configured to, in response to detecting the search query, generate a first search result based on at least the category of content associated with the search operator, and display the first search result in a web browser.


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