System for Searching Network Accessible Data Sets

• US 20080319991A1
• Filed: 08/01/2008
• Published: 12/25/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LSR Technologies
• Original Assignee: LSR Technologies
• Inventors: Ross, Laurence
• Application Number:
  US12/184,882
• Publication Number:
  US 20080319991A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3349 Reuse of stored results of previous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A Sales-Chip Relevance Alert extends the capability of the regenerating search engine by allowing users to become informed about relevant information that has changed to a second query or search request that is run after a first query or search request. The user can narrowly and specifically describe with a high degree of precision what is relevant and meaningful to the user and how the user is notified. The Alert provides a timely notice to the user about the relevant information change through user-defined means and user defined messages.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method for notifying a search request user of user-defined relevant changes to personalized, modifiable and repeatable search requests on a database wherein said personalized search requests are repeated to access and retrieve newly added information from the database the method comprising the steps of:

executing a personalized, modifiable and repeatable search request on a component to obtain a first result from a database;

re-executing the personalized, modifiable and repeatable search request on the component to obtain a second result from the database, said second result being newly added information from the database;

determining a change result using the component, said change result being a difference between the first result and the second result; and

notifying a search request user using the component when the change result is relevant to the search request user, wherein relevance of the change result is defined by the search request user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of re-executing the personalized, modifiable and repeatable search request is performed during a user-defined interval, said user-defined interval being user-modifiable at any time.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of re-executing the personalized, modifiable and repeatable search request on the component is executed on demand by the search request user.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of defining at least one criteria element, said at least one criteria element filtering said change result based on at least one characteristic of said first result, said at least one characteristic being of importance to the search request user.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of determining a match between the change result and the at least one criteria element, wherein the search request user is notified when the change result is relevant to the search request user, specifically when the match is present.