Patent №
US 7,177,948
Granted
2007-02-13
Filed 1999
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
3
nlp · kr · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09442150
A method and apparatus are provided for processing search results obtained in response to a user query. This may include examining document pointers returned by a search engine to identify a source from which the documents are available and generating at least two visual abstracts of each of the documents. Each of the visual abstracts may be of a different size. The method and system may also include formatting a stream of data such that when the data is displayed, a smaller one of the visual abstracts appears adjacent to a corresponding search result.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 104110838
Assignors
KRAFT, REINER, SUNDARESAN, NEELAKANTAN
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.