SUGGESTING CONCEPT-BASED DOMAIN NAMES

• US 20090248734A1
• Filed: 03/26/2008
• Published: 10/01/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 03/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Go Daddy Operating Company LLC (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Go Daddy Group Incorporated (GoDaddy, Inc.)
• Inventors: Adelman, Warren, Jallo, Matthew, Fitzpatrick, Shawn
• Granted Patent: US 7,962,438 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/35 Clustering; Classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/367 Ontology
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

Methods and systems of the present invention allow for displaying suggested concept-based results. An exemplary method may comprise the steps of receiving a domain name, determining from ontological calculations suggested domain names related to the concept of the domain name and displaying the suggested domain names.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

receiving a Domain Name, and if the Domain Name is not available;

A. establishing from the Domain Name an instance of an individual concept related to the Domain Name;

B. identifying a class of concepts wherein one or more attributes of the class of concepts are related to one or more attributes of the individual concept;

C. establishing a plurality of relationships between the individual concept and each of the concepts within the class of concepts;

D. calculating a plurality of Suggested Domain Names based on the concepts within the class of concepts most closely related to the individual concept; and

E. displaying the plurality of Suggested Domain Names.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the relationships of step C are not based solely on one or more synonyms of the one or more Domain Names.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the relationships of step C are established based on Cluster Analysis.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises a Clustering Algorithm.

5. The method of claim 3 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises a Fuzzy Cluster Analysis.

6. The method of claim 3 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises Quality Threshold Clustering.

7. The method of claim 3 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises Conceptual Clustering.

8. A system comprising:

means for receiving a Domain Name, and if the Domain Name is not available, further comprising;

A. means for establishing from the Domain Name an instance of an individual concept related to the Domain Name;

B. means for identifying a class of concepts wherein one or more attributes of the class of concepts are related to one or more attributes of the individual concept;

C. means for establishing a plurality of relationships between the individual concept and each of the concepts within the class of concepts;

D. means for calculating a plurality of Suggested Domain Names based on the concepts within the class of concepts most closely related to the individual concept; and

E. means for displaying the plurality of Suggested Domain Names.

9. The system of claim 8 wherein the relationships of element C are not based solely on one or more synonyms of the one or more Domain Names.

10. The system of claim 8 wherein the relationships of element C are established based on Cluster Analysis.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises a Clustering Algorithm.

12. The system of claim 10 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises a Fuzzy Cluster Analysis.

13. The system of claim 10 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises Quality Threshold Clustering.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein the Cluster Analysis further comprises Conceptual Clustering.

15. The system of claim 8 further comprising a Network, an Input Knowledge Agent, a Results Engine, an Ontology Language, a Clustering Algorithm, a Database, an Output Knowledge Agent or any combination thereof.