Research report search system

• US 20070255687A1
• Filed: 04/27/2006
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ahmed Al-Yousuf
• Original Assignee: Ahmed Al-Yousuf
• Inventors: Al-Yousuf, Ahmed
• Application Number:
  US11/412,447
• Publication Number:
  US 20070255687A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

The present invention relates to a searching system, and more specifically to a system for obtaining, storing, organizing and locating content in response to a user request. The system interacts with academic and professional research providers to obtain content on a variety of different topics which are stored and made available to users. The content is fully searchable and contains links to other related content.

Claims

1. A system for storing and retrieving data representing research materials comprising:

a. a repository for storing said data representing research materials obtained from a plurality of remote sources;

b. a processor connected to said repository for organizing said stored data and for retrieving said data;

c. a user interface including means for receiving at least one input from a user defining a search criteria, wherein upon receiving said input said processor retrieves stored data representing a desired research material based on said search criteria for output to said user.

2. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a display generator for displaying to a user said output representing said desired research material.

3. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising a display generator for receiving machine executable code for creating said user interface means.

4. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising means for providing output to a user.

5. The system as recited in claim 4, wherein said output providing means is at least one of said user interface and a transmission device for transmitting said output to a user via an e-mail address.

6. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said user, via said user interface, at least one of selects a predefined search indicator, enters a free-form text string and selects a letter corresponding to the first letter of a search term.

7. The system as recited in claim 6, further comprising a plurality of predefined sub-search indicators that correspond to each predefined search indicator.

8. The system as recited in claim 1, further comprising an access processor for selectively determining an access level associated with a user requesting access to said system, wherein said determination results in said user having at least one full access to system content and partial access to system content.

9. The system as recited in claim 8, further comprising a payment processor for requesting payment for access to said system.

10. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein in response to a determination by said access processor of partial access, said payment processor generates a payment request to be provided to said user.

11. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein said processor is a search processor for searching content stored in said repository.

12. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein in response a determination by said access processor of partial access and a search by said search processor, said user interface generator provides a summary of said research material and said payment processor generates a payment request message to be provided to said user requesting payment for full access to said research material.

13. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein said payment processor records submission of a payment from said user for receipt of said output representing said desired research material.

14. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein said processor stored contract terms between governing payment to said content providers for said content.

15. The system as recited in claim 14, wherein said payment processor automatically remits payment according to said contract terms to each remote source content provider at predetermined intervals.

16. The system as recited in claim 14, wherein said payment processor actively reviews access to said output representing said desired research material by said user at predetermined intervals and logs information corresponding to said review.

17. The system as recited in claim 16 wherein said payment processor automatically modifies said contract terms in response to said review meeting a threshold value and determines a modified fee to remit to said remote source providing said data representing research materials based on user initial access and additional access to said output representing said desired research material.

18. The system as recited in claim 6, wherein said predefined search indicators represent content areas including at least one of applied sciences, business, health, natural sciences, engineering and arts and education.

19. The system as recited in claim 1 whereby the output representing said desired research material is saved to a file.

20. The system as recited in claim 1 wherein said remote sources include at least one of universities, political research, economic research, technical research and individuals.