公开(公告)号：US07251628B1

公开(公告)日：2007-07-31

申请号：US09417065

申请日：1999-10-13

申请人： Stefan B. Edlund ,  Daniel A. Ford ,  Reiner Kraft

发明人： Stefan B. Edlund ,  Daniel A. Ford ,  Reiner Kraft

IPC分类号： G06Q40/00

CPC分类号： G06Q30/08 ,  G06Q30/0601 ,  G06Q40/025 ,  G06Q40/04 ,  G06Q50/188

摘要： A system and method of automating and managing bids within the context of an Internet auction is disclosed. The present invention permits continuous monitoring and verification of auctions on the Internet based on criterion such as highest bid on an item, maximum permissible bid, and a restriction on the number of successful bids in the auctions by any given participant (0109). The present invention permits embodiments incorporating an auction profile database (0101) that is generated by an auction profile configuration tool (0102) to act as input to an item search manager (0104) that takes data from an item database (0105) and control from an item selector (0103) to then interact with an auction bid controller (0106) that communicates with the remote auction site via an auction command interface (0107).In accordance with another embodiment of the present invention, an information processing system and computer readable storage medium is disclosed for carrying out the above method.

摘要翻译： 公开了在互联网拍卖的上下文中自动化和管理投标的系统和方法。 本发明允许基于对项目的最高出价，最大允许出价以及任何给定参与者的拍卖中的成功投标数量的限制等标准，连续地监视和验证因特网上的拍卖（0109）。 本发明允许包含由拍卖配置文件配置工具（0102）生成的拍卖简档数据库（0101）作为从项目数据库（0105）获取数据的项目搜索管理器（0104）的输入的实施例， 项目选择器（0103），然后通过拍卖命令界面（0107）与与远程拍卖站点通信的拍卖出价控制器（0106）进行交互。 根据本发明的另一实施例，公开了一种用于执行上述方法的信息处理系统和计算机可读存储介质。

公开(公告)号：US20070106657A1

公开(公告)日：2007-05-10

申请号：US11270917

申请日：2005-11-10

申请人： Vadim Brzeski ,  Reiner Kraft

发明人： Vadim Brzeski ,  Reiner Kraft

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/367 ,  G06F16/36

摘要： Techniques for automatically disambiguating a term with multiple meanings are provided. Term disambiguation is based on both training data and the contents of the body of text in which the term occurs. Once the contextual meaning of a term has been determined, metadata associated with that term can be used to narrow the scope of an automated search. Consequently, documents that contain the term in a context other than the context of the body of text can be excluded from search results. User interface elements may be associated with selected key terms in a web page. User interface elements associated with key terms may be associated with the contextual meanings of those key terms. When such an element is activated, metadata associated with the meaning of the corresponding key term may be submitted to a search engine, which can use the metadata to focus a search for pertinent documents.

摘要翻译： 提供了自动消除含义多义的术语的技术。 短期消歧是基于训练数据和术语发生的文本的内容。 一旦确定了术语的上下文意义，可以使用与该术语关联的元数据来缩小自动搜索的范围。 因此，可以从搜索结果中排除在文本正文的上下文中包含术语的文档。 用户界面元素可以与网页中的所选关键词相关联。 与关键词相关联的用户界面元素可以与这些关键术语的上下文含义相关联。 当激活这样一个元素时，可以将与相应关键词的含义相关联的元数据提交给搜索引擎，搜索引擎可以使用元数据来集中搜索相关文档。

公开(公告)号：US20070073669A1

公开(公告)日：2007-03-29

申请号：US11239708

申请日：2005-09-29

申请人： Reiner Kraft

发明人： Reiner Kraft

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  G06F17/30879

摘要： Techniques for providing information about “offline” content are provided. In one technique, content (e.g., televised or paper-printed content) is “tagged” with a service-associated icon and a keyword. A person seeing the icon in the content may submit the keyword to the service via his web browser. The service responsively submits search-limiting criteria, associated with the keyword, as query terms to a search engine. The search engine determines relevant web pages based on the query terms, dynamically generates search results and returns the search results to either the web browser or the service, which may dynamically generate and send to the web browser another web page containing the search results. Due to the automatic addition of the search-limiting criteria to the query terms, the set of web pages that the search engine determines to be relevant is narrower and more focused than the set otherwise would be.

摘要翻译： 提供了提供关于“脱机”内容的信息的技术。 在一种技术中，内容（例如，电视或纸打印内容）被带有与服务相关联的图标和关键字的“标记”。 在内容中看到图标的人可以通过他的网页浏览器将关键字提交给服务。 服务响应性地将与关键字相关联的搜索限制标准作为查询词提交给搜索引擎。 搜索引擎根据查询条件确定相关网页，动态生成搜索结果，并将搜索结果返回给网络浏览器或服务，可以动态生成并发送包含搜索结果的另一个网页。 由于搜索限制条件自动添加到查询词语中，搜索引擎确定为相关的网页集合比其他情况下的集合更窄和更集中。

公开(公告)号：US06938034B1

公开(公告)日：2005-08-30

申请号：US09651073

申请日：2000-08-30

申请人： Reiner Kraft ,  Joann Ruvolo

发明人： Reiner Kraft ,  Joann Ruvolo

IPC分类号： G06F17/22 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/2211 ,  G06F17/30696 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99937 ,  Y10S707/99945

摘要： The present invention relates to the field of data processing, and particularly to a software system and associated method for use with a search engine. The engine searches data maintained in systems that are linked together over an associated network such as the Internet. More specifically, this invention pertains to a computer software product for determining, comparing, and representing the similarity between documents using a drag and drop Graphical User Interface (GUI) within a dynamically generated list of document identifiers. The invention uses this drag and drop GUI interface for convenient selection of document identifiers for further comparison. Then processing of a similarity analysis request using a configurable similarity algorithm is executed; this processing can be done on the client, proxy or server side. When the comparison process is completed, the GUI presents the similarity result of the comparison process as a Venn Diagram to show the level of similarity between the selected documents.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及数据处理领域，特别涉及一种与搜索引擎一起使用的软件系统和相关方法。 引擎搜索通过相关联的网络（如Internet）链接在一起的系统中维护的数据。 更具体地说，本发明涉及用于使用动态生成的文档标识符列表内的拖放图形用户界面（GUI）来确定，比较和表示文档之间的相似性的计算机软件产品。 本发明使用该拖放GUI界面来方便地选择文档标识符用于进一步的比较。 然后执行使用可配置相似性算法处理相似度分析请求; 这个处理可以在客户端，代理服务器端进行。 当比较过程完成时，GUI将比较过程的相似结果呈现为维恩图，以显示所选文档之间的相似性水平。

公开(公告)号：US06934735B1

公开(公告)日：2005-08-23

申请号：US09611839

申请日：2000-07-07

申请人： Michael L. Emens ,  Reiner Kraft ,  Gaurav Tewari

发明人： Michael L. Emens ,  Reiner Kraft ,  Gaurav Tewari

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  H04L29/08

CPC分类号： H04L67/325

摘要： A system for accepting a specification of a time interval during which a download is to be performed on a delayed basis is described. The system can also select a time within the specified period. The selection can be randomized with the aim of distributing the load placed on computer and communication resources, or the selection may be based on testing a number of measures of computer and communication resource availability, and selecting a time of low utilization. A fuzzy measure of resource availability can be obtained, e.g., as a weighted sum of multiple measures, or each measure can be tested against a limit separately. According to another aspect of the invention a system and computer readable medium is disclosed for carrying out the above method.

摘要翻译： 描述了一种用于接受要延迟执行下载的时间间隔的规格的系统。 系统还可以在指定的时间内选择一个时间。 选择可以随机化，目的是分配计算机和通信资源上的负载，或者选择可以基于测试计算机和通信资源可用性的一些测量，并且选择低利用时间。 可以获得资源可用性的模糊度量，例如作为多个度量的加权和，或者可以分别针对限制来测试每个度量。 根据本发明的另一方面，公开了一种用于执行上述方法的系统和计算机可读介质。

公开(公告)号：US06745178B1

公开(公告)日：2004-06-01

申请号：US09561227

申请日：2000-04-28

申请人： Michael L. Emens ,  Reiner Kraft ,  Shang-Hua Teng ,  Gaurav Tewari ,  Peter Chi-Sing Yim

发明人： Michael L. Emens ,  Reiner Kraft ,  Shang-Hua Teng ,  Gaurav Tewari ,  Peter Chi-Sing Yim

IPC分类号： G06F1730

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  Y10S707/959 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99936 ,  Y10S707/99937

摘要： A method in a computer network for identifying users with similar interests is described. The method includes accepting a first query statement from a first user and storing a first item of information related to the first query. The method further includes accepting a second query from a second user and storing a second item of information related to the second query. The method further includes computing a measure of similarity of the first query and the second query by using the first item of information and the second item of information. A system and computer readable medium for carrying out the above method is also described.

摘要翻译： 描述了用于识别具有相似兴趣的用户的计算机网络中的方法。 该方法包括从第一用户接受第一查询语句并存储与第一查询相关的第一信息项。 该方法还包括接受来自第二用户的第二查询并且存储与第二查询相关的第二信息项。 该方法还包括通过使用第一信息项和第二信息项来计算第一查询和第二查询的相似性度量。 还描述了用于执行上述方法的系统和计算机可读介质。

公开(公告)号：US06718324B2

公开(公告)日：2004-04-06

申请号：US10354751

申请日：2003-01-30

申请人： Stefan B. Edlund ,  Michael L. Emens ,  Reiner Kraft ,  Jussi Myllymaki ,  Shanghua Teng

发明人： Stefan B. Edlund ,  Michael L. Emens ,  Reiner Kraft ,  Jussi Myllymaki ,  Shanghua Teng

IPC分类号： G06F1730

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  Y10S707/99931 ,  Y10S707/99932 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99934 ,  Y10S707/99935

摘要： A system and method of metadata search ranking is disclosed. The present invention utilizes a combination of popularity and/or relevancy to determine a search ranking for a given search result association. Given the exponential growth rate currently being experienced in the Internet community, the present invention provides one of the few methods by which searches of this vast distributed database can produce useful results ranked and sorted by usefulness to the searching web surfer. The present invention permits embodiments incorporating a Ranking System/Method (0100) further comprising a Session Manager (0101), Query Manager (0102), Popularity Sorter (0103), and Association (0104) functions. These components may be augmented in some preferred embodiments via the use of a Query Entry means (0155), Search Engine (0156); Data Repository (0157), Query Database (0158), and/or a Resource List (0159).

摘要翻译： 公开了一种元数据搜索排名的系统和方法。 本发明利用流行度和/或相关性的组合来确定给定搜索结果关联的搜索排名。 鉴于互联网社群目前正在经历的指数级增长率，本发明提供了这种广泛的分布式数据库的搜索可以产生按照搜索网络冲浪者的有用性排序和排序的有用结果的少数几种方法之一。 本发明允许包括排序系统/方法（0100）的实施例进一步包括会话管理器（0101），查询管理器（0102），流行分类器（0103）和关联（0104））功能。 在一些优选实施例中，可以通过使用查询输入装置（0155），搜索引擎（0156）来增加这些组件。 数据存储库（0157），查询数据库（0158）和/或资源列表（0159）。

公开(公告)号：US06665658B1

公开(公告)日：2003-12-16

申请号：US09482790

申请日：2000-01-13

申请人： Jillian I. DaCosta ,  Reiner Kraft

发明人： Jillian I. DaCosta ,  Reiner Kraft

IPC分类号： G06F1730

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99952

摘要： An apparatus and method for a web crawler to automatically simulate user interaction with a dynamic website in order to gather and extract information from the site. This interactive web crawler will be able to create a search query string for any one of a number of desired search topics and systematically crawl dynamic personalized content on a website and retrieve the information desired by the user/client.

摘要翻译： 用于网络爬虫的自动模拟与动态网站的用户交互以便从站点收集和提取信息的装置和方法。 该交互式网页抓取器将能够为多个期望的搜索主题中的任何一个创建搜索查询字符串，并且系统地爬取网站上的动态个性化内容并检索用户/客户端期望的信息。

公开(公告)号：US06662230B1

公开(公告)日：2003-12-09

申请号：US09421978

申请日：1999-10-20

申请人： Matthias Eichstaedt ,  Michael Lawrence Emens ,  Reiner Kraft

发明人： Matthias Eichstaedt ,  Michael Lawrence Emens ,  Reiner Kraft

IPC分类号： H04L900

CPC分类号： H04L63/10 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06F2221/2101 ,  H04L63/1416

摘要： A method for automatically limiting access of a client computer to data objects accessed through a server computer dynamically prevents robots or webcrawlers from obtaining too much of the server database and from dramatically reducing server performance. The method includes the steps of receiving a request for a data object, recording a log entry for the request, calculating client request values, and refusing the request if a client request value exceeds one of a set of corresponding predefined maximum request values. Each log entry contains a client identifier, timestamp, and at least one data object identifier for the request. The client request values preferably include a request frequency, which is compared with a predefined maximum request frequency, and a cumulative data request, which is compared with a data access threshold. If the client is refused access, the client identifier is added to a deny list, and future requests from the client are automatically denied. The calculated cumulative data request may be for a single client, or it may be for all clients, in order to detect a robot that is divided among multiple client identifiers. The cumulative data request check may consider the total percentage of server resources being given away, or a pattern in the requests. Also provided is a data protection system containing a log file, a request analyzer, and a dynamically-generated deny list. Requests to the server are intercepted and sent to the data protection system first.

摘要翻译： 用于自动限制客户端计算机访问通过服务器计算机访问的数据对象的方法可以动态地防止机器人或网络抓取工具获取太多的服务器数据库，并显着降低服务器性能。 该方法包括以下步骤：接收对数据对象的请求，记录请求的日志条目，计算客户端请求值，以及如果客户端请求值超过一组对应的预定义的最大请求值，则拒绝该请求。 每个日志条目包含客户端标识符，时间戳和至少一个请求的数据对象标识符。 客户端请求值优选地包括与预定义的最大请求频率进行比较的请求频率和与数据访问阈值进行比较的累积数据请求。 如果客户端被拒绝访问，则客户机标识符被添加到拒绝列表中，并且来自客户端的未来请求将被自动拒绝。 所计算的累积数据请求可以是针对单个客户端，或者可以是针对所有客户机，以便检测在多个客户端标识符之间划分的机器人。 累积数据请求检查可以考虑给出的服务器资源的总百分比或请求中的模式。 还提供了包含日志文件，请求分析器和动态生成的拒绝列表的数据保护系统。 对服务器的请求被拦截并首先发送到数据保护系统。

公开(公告)号：US06633867B1

公开(公告)日：2003-10-14

申请号：US09543383

申请日：2000-04-05

申请人： Reiner Kraft ,  Michael Lawrence Emens ,  Peter Chi-Shing Yim

发明人： Reiner Kraft ,  Michael Lawrence Emens ,  Peter Chi-Shing Yim

IPC分类号： G06F700

CPC分类号： G06Q30/0601 ,  G06F17/30867 ,  Y10S707/99933 ,  Y10S707/99935

摘要： A computer program product is provided as a session search system and associated method that provide a novel type of query referred to as “session query”. In the context of a session query, a user issues a search query using, for example, a web-based form. This query is processed immediately by the search engine, yielding search result elements that are returned within the new context of a “dynamic search result set”. As long as the user is reviewing the “dynamic search result set” of the session query, the search result is updated automatically in almost real-time, when new information arrives. When the user is no longer interested in continuing the search, the session query is terminated. The session search system generally includes two modules: A client module that presents the “dynamic search result set” to the user, and a server module that manages the current set of active session queries. The client module implements an executable code in the user's web browser.

摘要翻译： 提供计算机程序产品作为会话搜索系统和相关联的方法，其提供被称为“会话查询”的新型查询。 在会话查询的上下文中，用户使用例如基于web的表单来发布搜索查询。 该查询由搜索引擎立即处理，产生在“动态搜索结果集”的新上下文中返回的搜索结果元素。 只要用户正在查看会话查询的“动态搜索结果集”，当新信息到达时，搜索结果将几乎实时地自动更新。 当用户不再需要继续搜索时，会话查询被终止。 会话搜索系统通常包括两个模块：向用户呈现“动态搜索结果集”的客户端模块以及管理当前活动会话查询集合的服务器模块。 客户端模块在用户的Web浏览器中实现可执行代码。