Computer graphic display visualization system and method
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Abstract
An improved human user computer interface system, providing a graphic representation of a hierarchy populated with naturally classified objects, having included therein at least one associated object having a distinct classification. Preferably, a collaborative filter is employed to define the appropriate associated object. The associated object preferably comprises a sponsored object, generating a subsidy or revenue.
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62 Claims
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37. A search engine, comprising:
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(a) a first database containing records relating to a content of a plurality of information resources;
(b) a second database of records relating to commercial messages;
(c) a persistent identifier;
(d) a search query input processor, receiving a search query and defining in dependence thereon a query of said first database to retrieve hyperlinked identifiers of records of said first database corresponding to said search query, and a selection of records from said second database to define hyperlinked identifiers of records of said second database relating to commercial messages associated with at least one of said search query and said persistent identifier;
(e) an output processor for organizing said identifiers of records from said first database together with said identifiers of records from said second database in a common output, in further dependence on said persistent identifier; and
(f) an accounting database, for recording accounting information for at least one of a presentation and a selection of an identifier of a record from said second database with respect to an account maintained by an entity relating to a corresponding commercial message. - View Dependent Claims (1, 19, 27, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. An Internet portal, comprising a search engine for delivering a set of results having an associated content corresponding to a search query in conjunction with advertisements having an associated hyperlink, and an accounting database storing data representing at least one of a per impression and a per clickthrough basis with respect to said advertisements;
- and an output system for integrating advertisements into an output of said search engine in dependence on a conditional probability relating to said advertisement.
- View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62)
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