METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ENHANCED WEB SEARCHING

• US 20070244858A1
• Filed: 04/18/2006
• Published: 10/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Foy Streetman
• Original Assignee: Foy Streetman
• Inventors: Streetman, Foy
• Granted Patent: US 7,668,859 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A system for user-directed acquisition over a wide area network includes a client computer, a database having information data relating to user-entered text of HTML pages, and a server computer having a program software stored on the storage device to receive a user-entered word data in a first language from the client, to receive a user-entered geographic search area data from said client, and wherein the program software is associated with software for generating a translation language pair data and for translating the word data in accordance with the language corresponding to the user entered geographic search area data, software for accessing said information data as a function of the translated word data, and software for transmitting the accessed information data to the client-computer. A method is also provided.

Claims

1. A method which provide a more effective web searching, which includes the steps:

of;

(a) operably associating program software with a computer based device which is operably connected to the Internet, wherein the program software enables a user to input through the computer based device key word data which is accessible by an information retrieval function of the program software and enables the user to enter a particular geographic search area data whereby a translation language pair data is generated, and

(b) providing a reference data source associated with the translation pair data for enabling translation of the key word data into a translated key word data, whereby the translated key word data is accessible by the information retrieval function in a manner to retrieve information data over the Internet as a function of the language of the geographic search area data.

2. The method of claim 1, which is further characterized such that said information data emanates from a geographic area corresponding to said geographic search area.

3. The method of claim 1, which further includes the steps of:

(c) inputting the key word data of a first language into the computer based device;

(d) entering into the computer based device the geographic search area data; and

(e) employing the program software to generate a translation language pair including the first language and a second language corresponding to the geographic data, to translate the key word data using the second language, employing the information retrieval function with respect at least the word data and the geographic data to obtain over the Internet said information data related to the key word, and to translate the obtained said information data into the first language using the reference source data and displaying to the same.

4. The method of claim 3, which further includes the step (f) entering into the computer based device the translation language pair data having an associated reference translation source.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the program software includes search engine software.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the search engine software is integrated into a server-side web site.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the search engine software is integrated into a client-side web browser.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein said program software includes means for ranking said information data according to relevancy.

8. A method over a wide area network including a server and a client, for client-directed acquisition of information relating to client-entered text data, comprising:

(a) receiving from the client-entered text data in a first language;

(b) receiving from the client-entered geographic search area data;

(c) employing means for generating a translation language pair data including the first language and a second language corresponding to the client-entered geographic search area data and having an associated translation reference source data for such language pair;

(d) employing means for translating the text data into the second language using a translation reference data source;

(e) accessing over the network information relating to the translated text data;

(f) translating the accessed information into the first language; and

(g) transmitting to the client the accessed information data.

9. The method of claim 8, which method further comprises an Internet search engine operative with server for accessing the information over the Internet.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the steps are integrated into said server.

16. The method of claim 8, wherein said program software includes means for ranking said information data according to relevancy.

11. A system for user-directed acquisition over a wide area network, comprising:

a client computer based system;

a database having information data relating to user-entered text of HTML pages; and

a server computer based system, having a processor, a memory, and a storage device, and wherein the processor and memory are operative with a program software stored on the storage device to receive a user-entered word data in a first language from said client, to receive a user-entered geographic search area data from said client, and wherein the program software is associated with means for generating a translation language pair data and for translating the word data in accordance with the language corresponding to the user entered geographic search area data, means for accessing said information data as a function of the translated word data, and means for transmitting the accessed information data to the client-computer system.

12. The system of claim 11, which method further comprises an Internet search engine operative with server for accessing the information over the Internet.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein said means are integrated into said server computer based system.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein said program software obtains information emanating from a geographic area corresponding with said geographic search area data.

17. The system of claim 11, wherein said program software includes means for ranking said information data according to relevancy.

18. A system for enhanced communication over a network, comprising:

a first computer based system;

a second computer based system; and

means operably associated with said first and said second computer based systems to enable communication therebetween by enabling a user-entered word data in a first language from said first computer based system, enabling a user-entered geographic search area data from said first computer based system, and including means for generating a translation language pair data and for translating the word data in accordance with the language corresponding to the user entered geographic search area data, and means for transmitting the accessed information data to said second computer based system.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein said means reside on one of said computer based systems.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein said means reside on a server computer based system.