SEARCH OVER DESIGNATED CONTENT

• US 20080005074A1
• Filed: 06/28/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Flake, Gary W., Chaudhuri, Surajit, Goodman, Joshua T., Hurst-Hiller, Oliver, Griffin, Trenholme J., Horvitz, Eric J., Moss, Kenneth A., Gates, William H.
• Application Number:
  US11/427,296
• Publication Number:
  US 20080005074A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

The subject disclosure pertains to web searches and more particularly toward influencing resultant content to increase relevancy. The resultant content can be influenced by reconfiguring a query and/or filtering results based on user location and/or context information (e.g., user characteristics/profile, prior interaction/usage temporal, current events, and third party state/context . . . ). Furthermore, the disclosure provides for query execution on at least a subset of designated web content, for example as specified by a user. Still further yet, a localized marketing system is disclosed that provides discount offers to users that match merchant criteria including proximity. A system for actively probing populations of users with different parameters and monitoring responses can be employed to collect data for identifying the best discounts and deadlines to offer to users to achieve desired results.

Claims

1. A web search system comprising the following computer-implemented components:

a component that receives a web query; and

an execution component that evaluates the query and identifies relevant content with respect to a subset of web content.

2. The system of claim 1, the subset of web content is associated with a particular a user.

3. The system of claim 2, the subset of web content is associated with user relevancy ranking data.

4. The system of claim 2, further comprising a generation component that facilitates composition of the subset of web content.

5. The system of claim 4, the generation component identifies web content based on user specification.

6. The system of claim 4, the generation component infers web content based on interaction.

7. The system of claim 4, the generation component generates an index associated with the web content to facilitate query evaluation.

8. The system of claim 2, further comprising a component that filters results based on physical location of a user.

9. The system of claim 2, further comprising a component that influences identified relevant content based on user context information.

10. A method of web search comprising the following computer-implemented acts:

receiving a web query;

identifying a subset of web content; and

executing the query over the subset to identify relevant web content.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing a mechanism to facilitate composing the subset of web content.

12. The method of claim 11, composing the subset of content from user specification.

13. The method of claim 11, composing the subset of web content from historical interaction.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising generating an index on the subset of content to facilitate rapid execution.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving personalized ranking information for he subset of web content.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising displaying the identified web content based on the personalized ranking information.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising constraining identified web content based on a present physical location of a user.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising filtering identified web content based on user context information.

19. The method of claim 10, further comprising limiting identified web content based on environmental context information.

20. A web search system comprising:

a computer-implemented means for receiving a web query;

a computer-implemented means for evaluating the web query with respect to a subset of web content identified by a user; and

a computer-implemented means for filtering the web content based on one or more of user location and context.