METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENHANCING ONLINE SEARCHING

Patent №

US 7,177,948

Granted

2007-02-13

Filed 1999

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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

Natural language0.94
Knowledge representation0.88
Planning0.56
Vision0.08
Evolutionary computation0.04
AI hardware0.02
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 104110838

Assignors

KRAFT, REINER, SUNDARESAN, NEELAKANTAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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