DOCUMENT MODIFICATION BY A CLIENT-SIDE APPLICATION

• US 20100083105A1
• Filed: 09/26/2008
• Published: 04/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/29/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: CHANNABASAVAIAH, PRASHANTH
• Granted Patent: US 8,972,856 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/273
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A method for modifying a document at a client-side application is disclosed. The method involves receiving a user-requested document at a client-side application from a server; querying a database by the client-side application with entities in the user-requested document, where at least one entity is associated with entity information stored in the database; in response to querying the database, receiving the entity information associated with the at least one entity at the client-side application; modifying the user-requested document at the client-side application to obtain a modified document, where modifying the document comprises adding the entity information or a link to the entity information associated with the at least one entity; and displaying the modified document with the client-side application.

Claims

1. A machine executed method comprising:

receiving a user-requested document at a client-side application from a server;

querying a database by the client-side application based on one or more of entities in the user-requested document, wherein at least one entity of the one or more entities is associated with entity information stored in the database;

in response to querying the database, receiving the entity information associated with the at least one entity at the client-side application;

creating a modified document by modifying the user-requested document at the client-side application, wherein modifying the user-requested document comprises adding to the user-requested document (a) the entity information or (b) a link to the entity information associated with the at least one entity; and

displaying the modified document with the client-side application.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting the one or more entities in the user-requested document based on data stored at a client machine executing the client-side application.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the data stored at the client machine comprises data identifying a location, and wherein the one or more entities are selected from the user-requested document based on a proximity to the location

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the data stored at the client machine comprises a time window, and wherein the one or more entities are selected from the user-requested document based on a time associated with the one or more entities within the time window.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

selecting a portion of the entity information received for use in modifying the user-requested document, wherein the portion is selected based on a trusted source of the portion.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the trusted source is determined based on data stored at a client machine executing the client-side application.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein selecting the portion is further based on a priority of the trusted source compared to a priority for a plurality of trusted sources.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the document to obtain the modified document comprises adding a separate listing of recognized entities associated with entity information.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

performing a successive query using the entity information to query the database by the client-side application for additional information.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the client-side application is limited by a minimum number of successive queries or a maximum number of successive queries.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the client-side application is a web browser comprising at least one toolbar.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one entity comprises a place, and wherein the entity information comprises a map associated with the place or directions to the place from a location associated with a client system executing the client-side application.

13. A computer readable storage medium comprising one or more sequences of instructions, which when executed by one or more processors cause:

receiving a user-requested document at a client-side application from a server;

querying a database by the client-side application with one or more entities in the user-requested document, wherein at least one entity of the one or more entities is associated with entity information stored in the database;

in response to querying the database, receiving the entity information associated with the at least one entity at the client-side application;

modifying the user-requested document at the client-side application to obtain a modified document, wherein modifying the document comprises adding a link to the entity information associated with the at least one entity; and

displaying the modified document with the client-side application.

14. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein querying the database by the client-side application with the one or more entities in the user-requested document comprises:

selecting the one or more entities in the user-requested document based on data stored at a client machine executing the client-side application.

15. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the data stored at the client machine comprises a location, and wherein the one or more entities are selected from the user-requested document based on a proximity to the location.

16. The computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the data stored at the client machine comprises a time window, and wherein the one or more entities are selected from the user-requested document based on a time associated with the one or more entities within the time window.

17. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the one or more sequences of instructions when executed by one or more processors further cause:

selecting a portion of the entity information received for use in modifying the user-requested document based on a trusted source of the portion of the entity information.

18. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the trusted source is determined based on data stored at a client machine executing the client-side application.

19. The computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein selecting the portion is further based on a priority of the trusted source compared to a priority for a plurality of trusted sources.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein modifying the document to obtain the modified document comprises adding a separate listing of recognized entities associated with entity information.

21. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the one or more sequences of instructions when executed by one or more processors further cause:

performing a successive query using the entity information to query the database by the client-side application for additional information.

22. The computer readable storage medium of claim 21, wherein the client-side application is limited by a minimum number of successive queries or a maximum number of successive queries.

23. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the client-side application is a web browser comprising at least one toolbar.

24. The computer readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein the at least one entity comprises a place, and wherein the entity information comprises a map associated with the place or directions to the place from a location associated with a client system executing the client-side application.