Search engine

• US 10,180,952 B2
• Filed: 04/29/2016
• Issued: 01/15/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Search and Share Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Newsplug, Inc.
• Inventors: Shriber, John S., Zaks, Roman
• Primary Examiner(s): Uddin, Mohammed R
• Application Number:
  US15/142,479
• Publication Number:
  US 20160239526A1
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 707711, 707748, 707793, 707805, 707999102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/22 Indexing; Data structures therefor; Storage structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/35 Discourse or dialogue representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46

Abstract

A search engine to index web content with user content. A server computer receives, from a first client computer operated by a first user, an identification of first web content displayed by a web browser of the first client computer in a main browser window. The identification of the first web content is transmitted by the first user to the server computer via a user interface separate from the main browser window. The server computer then indexes the first web content. In response to receiving a search query from a web browser of a second client computer operated by a second user, the server computer transmits search results to the web browser of the second client computer. The search results include the first web content identified by the first user in a position relative to identifications of other web content received from other users.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

providing, by a server computer, a first user interface operating on the first client computer and displaying 3^rd party content on the first client computer, wherein the first user interface is separate from a main window of a web browser, and wherein the first user interface automatically selects a portion of the 3^rd party content and displays the portion of the 3^rd party content within the first user interface based on settings received from the user via the user interface to display selected portions of the 3^rd party content;

receiving, by the server computer, a submission associated with the 3^rd party content from the first user via the first user interface;

indexing, by the server computer, the 3^rd party content based on the submission from the first user;

ranking, by the server computer, the 3^rd party content based on a rating of the 3^rd party content submitted from the first user;

receiving, by the server computer, a search query from a second client computer operated by a second user;

in response to receiving the search query, selecting, by the server computer and based on the indexing and the ranking of the 3^rd party content, a set of search results that include an identification of the 3^rd party content; and

transmitting, by the server computer, the set of search results to the second client computer.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the 3^rd party content comprises of web content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein ranking the 3^rd party content is further based on ratings of the content from other users.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the rating associated with the content is selected from a group of rating types consisting of like, dislike, and neutral.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein indexing the content comprises indexing the content based on keywords associated with the content in the submission from the first user.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the submission from the first user further comprises a user comment on the content.

7. A computing device comprising:

a processor; and

memory coupled to the processor and storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to;

provide a first user interface to a first client computer and display 3^rd party content on the first client computer, wherein the first user interface is separate from a main window of a web browser, and wherein the first user interface automatically selects a portion of the 3^rd party content and displays the portion of the 3^rd party content within the first user interface based on settings received from the user via the user interface to display selected portions of the 3^rd party content;

receive a submission associated with the 3^rd party content from the first user via the first user interface;

index the 3^rd party content based on the submission from the first user;

rank the 3^rd party content based on a rating of the 3^rd party content submitted from the first user;

receive a search query from a second client computer operated by a second user;

in response to receiving the search query, select based on the indexing and ranking of the 3^rd party content, a set of search results that include an identification of the 3^rd party content; and

transmit the set of search results to the second client computer.

8. The computing device of claim 7, wherein the 3rd party content comprises of web content.

9. The computing device of claim 8, further comprising:

ranking the 3^rd party content based on a rating of the 3^rd party content submitted from the first user;

and selecting of the set of search results is further based on the ranking of the 3^rd party content.

10. The computing device of claim 9, wherein ranking the 3^rd party content is further based on ratings of the content from other users.

11. The computing device of claim 10, wherein the rating associated with the content is selected from a group of rating types consisting of like, dislike, and neutral.

12. The computing device of claim 11, wherein indexing the content comprises indexing the content based on keywords associated with the content in the submission from the first user.

13. The computing device of claim 12, wherein the submission from the first user further comprises a user comment on the content.

14. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions that, when executed by a server computer, cause the server computer to:

provide a first user interface to a first client computer and display 3^rd party content on the first client computer, wherein the first user interface is separate from a main window of a web browser, and wherein the first user interface automatically selects a portion of the 3^rd party content and displays the portion of the 3^rd party content within the first user interface based on settings received from the user via the user interface to display selected portions of the 3^rd party content;

receive a submission associated with the 3^rd party content from the first user via the first user interface;

index the 3^rd party content based on the submission from the first user;

rank the 3^rd party content based on a rating of the 3^rd party content submitted from the first user;

receive a search query from a second client computer operated by a second user;

in response to receiving the search query, select based on the indexing and ranking of the 3^rd party content, a set of search results that include an identification of the 3^rd party content; and

transmit the set of search results to the second client computer.