公开(公告)号：US07478110B2

公开(公告)日：2009-01-13

申请号：US11041557

申请日：2005-01-24

申请人： Luis A. von Ahn Arellano ,  Eric D. Brill ,  John C. Platt ,  Josh Benaloh

发明人： Luis A. von Ahn Arellano ,  Eric D. Brill ,  John C. Platt ,  Josh Benaloh

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948

摘要： The subject invention provides a unique system and method that facilitates an interactive game-powered search engine that serve the purposes of both users who may be looking for information as well as game participants who may desire to earn some reward or level of enjoyment by playing the game. More specifically, the system and method provides feedback to a user based on the user's input string or a string derived therefrom. The feedback can be a response or answer to the user's input in the form of text, an image, audio or sound, video, and/or a URL that is provided by one or more game participants when there is some degree of consistency or agreement between the responses or when individual players have demonstrated good reliability in their responses.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了一种独特的系统和方法，其促进交互式游戏驱动的搜索引擎，其服务于可能正在寻找信息的用户的目的以及可能希望通过玩游戏来获得一些奖励或级别的游戏参与者 游戏。 更具体地，系统和方法基于用户的输入字符串或从其导出的字符串向用户提供反馈。 当有一定程度的一致性或协议时，反馈可以是文本，图像，音频或声音，视频和/或由一个或多个游戏参与者提供的URL的形式的用户输入的响应或答案 在响应之间或当个体玩家在回应中表现出良好的可靠性时。

公开(公告)号：US20080005108A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-03

申请号：US11427314

申请日：2006-06-28

申请人： Raymond E. Ozzie ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  John C. Platt ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Eric D. Brill

发明人： Raymond E. Ozzie ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  John C. Platt ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Eric D. Brill

IPC分类号： G06F7/00

CPC分类号： G06Q10/107 ,  G06F16/9535 ,  G06N7/005 ,  G06Q30/02

摘要： An architecture is provided for data mining of electronic messages to extract information relating to relevancy and popularity of websites and/or web pages for ranking of web pages or other documents. A monitor component monitors information of a message for a reference to a web page or other document, and a ranking component computes rank of the web page based in part on the reference.

摘要翻译： 提供用于电子消息的数据挖掘的架构，以提取与网页和/或网页的相关性和受欢迎程度有关的网页或其他文档排名的信息。 监视器组件监视消息的信息以引用网页或其他文档，并且排序组件部分地基于参考来计算网页的排名。

公开(公告)号：US07822762B2

公开(公告)日：2010-10-26

申请号：US11427311

申请日：2006-06-28

申请人： Christopher D. Payne ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Kyle G. Peltonen ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Xuedong D. Huang ,  William H. Gates, III ,  John C. Platt ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Ramez Naam ,  Raymond E Ozzie ,  Eric D. Brill

发明人： Christopher D. Payne ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Kyle G. Peltonen ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Xuedong D. Huang ,  William H. Gates, III ,  John C. Platt ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Ramez Naam ,  Raymond E Ozzie ,  Eric D. Brill

IPC分类号： G06F7/001

CPC分类号： G06F17/30967 ,  G06F17/30964

摘要： A system that employs an explicitly and/or implicitly trained model in order to return entity-specific computer-based search results is provided. The innovation can provide for a customized search model that focuses search in connection with achieving information that is meaningful with respect to goals of an entity. The model can be used to modify a search query in accordance with a goal of the entity or to generate the search query thereby returning meaningful and/or targeted results to the user. The system can automatically gather entity-related data thereafter determining or inferring a goal as well as training the model. Moreover, the system can selectively configure (e.g., order, rank, filter) and render results to a user based upon the model.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种采用明确和/或隐含训练的模型以返回基于实体的基于计算机的搜索结果的系统。 该创新可以提供定制的搜索模型，其将搜索重点与获得关于实体目标有意义的信息相关联。 该模型可以用于根据实体的目标修改搜索查询，或者生成搜索查询，从而向用户返回有意义和/或有针对性的结果。 系统可以自动收集与实体有关的数据，然后确定或推断目标以及训练模型。 此外，系统可以基于模型选择性地配置（例如，排序，排序，过滤）并将结果呈现给用户。

公开(公告)号：US20080005095A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-03

申请号：US11427317

申请日：2006-06-28

申请人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  William H. Gates ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Bradly A. Brunell ,  Gary Flake ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Kenneth A. Moss ,  Raymond E. Ozzie ,  John C. Platt ,  Yevgeny E. Agichtein ,  Eric D. Brill ,  Robert J. Ragno ,  Matthew R. Richardson

发明人： Eric J. Horvitz ,  William H. Gates ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Bradly A. Brunell ,  Gary Flake ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Kenneth A. Moss ,  Raymond E. Ozzie ,  John C. Platt ,  Yevgeny E. Agichtein ,  Eric D. Brill ,  Robert J. Ragno ,  Matthew R. Richardson

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/951 ,  G06F16/34

摘要： The subject disclosure pertains to scrutinizing results generated or otherwise provided by a computer. A mechanism is provided that enables users to validate computer-based information. Users can receive a validity metric associated with computer generated or provided results indicative of the veracity of such results. Validation systems and methods are disclosed to facilitate determining the veracity of results including those that employ humans (e.g., referrals, voting . . . ) and/or automated means (e.g., source analysis, data mining . . . ).The disclosure also provides a mechanism for guiding computer searches (e.g., web, Internet, intranet . . . ). Machine learning and reasoning mechanisms are employed together with a search engine to facilitate intelligent guidance of queries and results based on a query and responses to computer generated inquires.

摘要翻译： 本发明涉及审查计算机生成或以其他方式提供的结果。 提供了一种机制，使用户能够验证基于计算机的信息。 用户可以收到与计算机生成或提供的结果相关联的有效性度量，表明这些结果的真实性。 公开了验证系统和方法以便于确定结果的真实性，包括使用人类（例如转介，投票...）和/或自动化手段（例如，源分析，数据挖掘等）的结果的真实性。 本公开还提供了用于引导计算机搜索（例如，web，因特网，内部网等）的机制。 机器学习和推理机制与搜索引擎一起使用，以便根据查询和对计算机生成的查询的响应来促进对查询和结果的智能指导。

公开(公告)号：US20080005069A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-03

申请号：US11426994

申请日：2006-06-28

申请人： Christopher D. Payne ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Kyle G. Peltonen ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Xuedong D. Huang ,  William H. Gates ,  John C. Platt ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Ramez Naam ,  Raymond E. Ozzie ,  Eric D. Brill

发明人： Christopher D. Payne ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Kyle G. Peltonen ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Xuedong D. Huang ,  William H. Gates ,  John C. Platt ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Ramez Naam ,  Raymond E. Ozzie ,  Eric D. Brill

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F16/9535

摘要： A system that employs an explicitly and/or implicitly trained model in order to return entity-specific computer-based search results is provided. The innovation can provide for a customized search model that focuses search in connection with achieving information that is meaningful with respect to goals of an entity. The model can be used to modify a search query in accordance with a goal of the entity or to generate the search query thereby returning meaningful and/or targeted results to the user. The system can automatically gather entity-related data thereafter determining or inferring a goal as well as training the model. Moreover, the system can selectively configure (e.g., order, rank, filter) and render results to a user based upon the model.

公开(公告)号：US20080005076A1

公开(公告)日：2008-01-03

申请号：US11427311

申请日：2006-06-28

申请人： Christopher D. Payne ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Kyle G. Peltonen ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Xuedong D. Huang ,  William H. Gates ,  John C. Platt ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Ramez Naam ,  Raymond E. Ozzie ,  Eric D. Brill

发明人： Christopher D. Payne ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Kyle G. Peltonen ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Xuedong D. Huang ,  William H. Gates ,  John C. Platt ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Ramez Naam ,  Raymond E. Ozzie ,  Eric D. Brill

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30967 ,  G06F17/30964

摘要： A system that employs an explicitly and/or implicitly trained model in order to return entity-specific computer-based search results is provided. The innovation can provide for a customized search model that focuses search in connection with achieving information that is meaningful with respect to goals of an entity. The model can be used to modify a search query in accordance with a goal of the entity or to generate the search query thereby returning meaningful and/or targeted results to the user. The system can automatically gather entity-related data thereafter determining or inferring a goal as well as training the model. Moreover, the system can selectively configure (e.g., order, rank, filter) and render results to a user based upon the model.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种采用明确和/或隐含训练的模型以返回基于实体的基于计算机的搜索结果的系统。 该创新可以提供定制的搜索模型，其将搜索重点与获得关于实体目标有意义的信息相关联。 该模型可以用于根据实体的目标修改搜索查询，或者生成搜索查询，从而向用户返回有意义和/或有针对性的结果。 系统可以自动收集与实体有关的数据，然后确定或推断目标以及训练模型。 此外，系统可以基于模型选择性地配置（例如，排序，排序，过滤）并将结果呈现给用户。

公开(公告)号：US08239380B2

公开(公告)日：2012-08-07

申请号：US10600797

申请日：2003-06-20

申请人： Eric D. Brill

发明人： Eric D. Brill

IPC分类号： G06F7/00 ,  G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30867

摘要： The present invention provides systems and methods that employ statistical filtering and ranking techniques to improve content search engine search results by tuning a general-purpose search engine for an entry point for a group of users. The filter can be manually and/or automatically configured via providing training sets of relevant and non-relevant data. For example, a relevant set of data comprising web pages associated with a desired search context for the group utilizing the entry point can be employed. In addition, a non-relevant set of data comprising random and unrelated documents can be employed. The learned filter can then be employed to compare a returned result with the known relevant and the known non-relevant data sets to determine whether the result is relevant to the user for the entry point, and the degree of relevance. The results can then be presented to the user based on the relevance.

摘要翻译： 本发明提供了采用统计过滤和排序技术来通过调整用于一组用户的入口点的通用搜索引擎来改进内容搜索引擎搜索结果的系统和方法。 过滤器可以通过提供相关和非相关数据的训练集来手动和/或自动配置。 例如，可以使用包括与使用入口点的组的期望搜索上下文相关联的网页的相关数据集。 此外，可以采用包含随机和不相关文档的非相关数据集合。 然后，可以使用所学习的过滤器来将返回的结果与已知的相关和已知的非相关数据集进行比较，以确定结果是否与入口点的用户相关，以及相关程度。 然后可以根据相关性将结果呈现给用户。

公开(公告)号：US07997485B2

公开(公告)日：2011-08-16

申请号：US11427748

申请日：2006-06-29

申请人： Gary W. Flake ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Eric D. Brill ,  Bradly A. Brunell ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Trenholme J. Griffin ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Raymond E. Ozzie

发明人： Gary W. Flake ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Eric D. Brill ,  Bradly A. Brunell ,  Susan T. Dumais ,  Alexander G. Gounares ,  Trenholme J. Griffin ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller ,  Raymond E. Ozzie

IPC分类号： G06K15/00

CPC分类号： G06F21/6245 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06Q30/0273 ,  H04L63/0227 ,  H04L63/102 ,  H04L63/1483 ,  H04L67/306 ,  H04W12/12

摘要： Architecture is provided that facilitates user-controlled access to user profile information. A user is allowed to selectively expose (or mask) portions of his/her profile to third parties. Additionally, advertisers and/or content providers can offer incentives or enticement in response to the acceptance of which a user exposes larger portions of their profile. The architecture comprises a system that facilitates profile management utilizing a profile component that facilitates creation and storage of an electronic profile of a user, and a control component under control of the user for controlling access to the profile. Machine learning and reasoning is provided to make inferences and automate aspects thereof.

摘要翻译： 提供了便于用户控制访问用户简档信息的体系结构。 允许用户选择性地（或掩盖）他/她的个人资料的部分到第三方。 此外，广告商和/或内容提供商可以提供激励或诱惑以响应用户公开其配置文件的较大部分的接受。 该架构包括利用简化组件来促进简档管理的系统，该简档组件便于用户的电子简档的创建和存储，以及用户控制下的用于控制对简档的访问的控制组件。 提供机器学习和推理来推断和自动化其方面。

公开(公告)号：US07739221B2

公开(公告)日：2010-06-15

申请号：US11427303

申请日：2006-06-28

申请人： Stephen Lawler ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Anoop Gupta ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Eric D. Brill ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Ramez Naam ,  Surajit Chaudhuri ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller

发明人： Stephen Lawler ,  Eric J. Horvitz ,  Joshua T. Goodman ,  Anoop Gupta ,  Christopher A. Meek ,  Eric D. Brill ,  Gary W. Flake ,  Ramez Naam ,  Surajit Chaudhuri ,  Oliver Hurst-Hiller

IPC分类号： G06F17/30

CPC分类号： G06F17/30864 ,  G06F17/30592 ,  Y10S707/913

摘要： A system that can analyze a multi-dimensional input thereafter establishing a search query based upon extracted features from the input. In a particular example, an image can be used as an input to a search mechanism. Pattern recognition and image analysis can be applied to the image thereafter establishing a search query that corresponds to features extracted from the image input. The system can also facilitate indexing multi-dimensional searchable items thereby making them available to be retrieved as results to a search query. More particularly, the system can employ text analysis, pattern and/or speech recognition mechanisms to extract features from searchable items. These extracted features can be employed to index the searchable items.

摘要翻译： 一种能够基于从输入中提取的特征来建立搜索查询的分析多维输入的系统。 在特定示例中，图像可以用作搜索机制的输入。 模式识别和图像分析可以应用于图像，然后建立对应于从图像输入提取的特征的搜索查询。 该系统还可以方便索引多维可搜索项目，从而使得它们可以作为结果被检索到搜索查询。 更具体地，系统可以采用文本分析，模式和/或语音识别机制来从可搜索项目中提取特征。 这些提取的特征可用于索引可搜索的项目。

公开(公告)号：US20100070554A1

公开(公告)日：2010-03-18

申请号：US12211113

申请日：2008-09-16

申请人： Matthew Richardson ,  Ryen W. White ,  Eric D. Brill

发明人： Matthew Richardson ,  Ryen W. White ,  Eric D. Brill

IPC分类号： G06F15/16

CPC分类号： H04L67/306 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  H04L51/14

摘要： A question processing system routes questions among participants in a balanced and sustainable manner. Any participant can act as an inquirer (who poses questions) and an expert (who answers questions). In one illustrative case, the question processing system operates by: receiving a question from an inquirer; determining at least one expert that is appropriate to answer the question; and routing the question to the expert. The receiving, determining, and routing are repeated with respect to other inquirers and other experts to achieve a desired balance of information exchange among the plurality of participants of the electronic question processing system.

摘要翻译： 问题处理系统以平衡和可持续的方式将参与者的问题提交给参与者。 任何参与者都可以作为询问者（提出问题）和专家（谁回答问题）。 在一个说明性情况下，问题处理系统通过以下操作：从查询者接收问题; 决定至少一名适合回答问题的专家; 并将问题路由到专家。 相对于其他查询者和其他专家重复接收，确定和路由以实现电子问题处理系统的多个参与者之间的信息交换的期望的平衡。