SEARCH ENGINE

• US 20080281807A1
• Filed: 06/05/2007
• Published: 11/13/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Siemens AG
• Original Assignee: Siemens AG
• Inventors: Southall, Alan, BARTLANG, Udo
• Application Number:
  US11/758,377
• Publication Number:
  US 20080281807A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A search engine comprising search indices for entities, wherein a tag reputation of a tag which classifies an entity is updated by said search engine depending on a rating input by said user and depending on a user reputation of said user.

Claims

1. A search engine comprising:

search indices for entities, wherein a tag reputation of a tag which classifies an entity is updated by said search engine depending on a rating input by a user and depending on a user reputation of said user.

2. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said entity is a network entity of a data network.

3. The search engine according to claim 2, wherein said data network is a local network.

4. The search engine according to claim 2, wherein the data network is formed by the Internet.

5. The search engine according to claim 4, wherein said entity is a web page.

6. The search engine according to claim 4, wherein said entity is a web service.

7. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein each entity comprises an uniform resource identifier.

8. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said search engine is formed by a server of a service provider connected to a network.

9. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said search engine comprises a memory for storing a search index list comprising for a plurality of tags corresponding uniform resource identifiers of network entities classified by the respective tags.

10. The search engine according to claim 9, wherein a tag is formed by a key phrase.

11. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said search engine comprises a memory for storing a user reputation index list comprising for a plurality of user IDs of users corresponding user reputation values of the respective users.

12. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said search engine comprises a memory for storing a tag reputation index list comprising for a plurality of tags corresponding tag reputation values of the respective tags.

13. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said search engine is connected via a network to user clients.

14. The search engine according to claim 13, wherein a search index update message is generated by an authorized user client and transmitted via a network interface of said network to said search engine.

15. The search engine according to claim 14, wherein the search index update message comprises:

a user ID of said user,

a rating for an entity, and

a uniform resource identifier of said entity.

16. The search engine according to claim 15, wherein said search index update message further comprises:

at least one tag for classifying said entity,

a comment of said user with respect to another comment input by another user with respect to said entity or with respect to said entity, and

a comment reference for the respective comment.

17. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said search engine comprises a memory for storing for each entity a corresponding comment index list which comprises a plurality of user IDs of users and comments input by said users for the respective entities and references to respective parent comments which are comments to which the input comments refer to.

18. The search engine according to claim 9, wherein the search engine after reception of a search index update message from a client performs an update of said search index list by inserting tags of said search index update message which are not already stored in said search index list into said search index list along with the uniform resource identifier of said search index update message.

19. The search engine according to claim 1,

wherein an update of a user reputation of a first user having a comment for an entity stored in said comment index list of said entity is performed after reception of a search index update message from a second user by said search engine depending on a user reputation of said second user and depending on the rating given by said second user in said search index update message,

wherein the updated user reputation of said first user is stored by said search engine in a user reputation index list.

20. The search engine according to claim 19, wherein said rating is given by said second user with respect to the comments of said first user for said entity.

21. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein said search engine performs an update of a tag reputation of all tags within a received search index update message depending on the user reputation of the respective user and stores the updated tag reputations of the tag reputation index list of the respective entity.

22. The search engine according to claim 1, wherein the search engine performs an update of said comment index list of said entity by storing the comment of the last search index update message of said user with respect to said entity.

23. A method for indexing entities, comprising:

updating a tag reputation of a tag which classifies an entity depending on a user reputation of a user and depending on a rating input by said user.

24. A system for indexing entities, comprising:

an update unit updating a tag reputation of a tag which classifies an entity depending on a user reputation of a user and depending on a rating input by said user.

25. A client for providing a search index update message for a search engine connected to said client via a network, comprising:

a processing unit programmed to generate a search index update message that includes a user ID of a user, a rating input by said user for an entity of said network, a uniform resource identifier of said entity, at least one tag for classifying said entity, and a comment of said user with respect to said entity or with respect to a comment of another user for said entity, the search engine updating a tag reputation of said tag depending on a user reputation of said user and depending on the rating of said search index update message.