USER INTERFACES FOR SEARCH SYSTEMS USING IN-LINE CONTEXTUAL QUERIES

Patent №

US 7,603,349

Granted

2009-10-13

Filed 2005

Owner

YAHOO! INC.

Lab

AI components

3

ml · nlp · kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11033417

Systems and methods, including user interfaces, are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationG06F 16/951G06F 16/24575G06F 16/9535G06Q 10/10Y10S 707/99933Y10S 707/99934Y10S 707/99935

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning0.99
Knowledge representation0.65
Evolutionary computation0.13
Planning0.12
AI hardware0.08
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

YAHOO! INC.

assignment · 159600761

Assignors

KRAFT, REINER, HARTMANN, ANDREAS, STRIJLAND, PAULIEN

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

© 2026 NYSGPT2525 LLC