SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOHYPERLINKING AND NAVIGATION IN URL BASED CONTEXT QUERIES

• US 20100125569A1
• Filed: 11/18/2008
• Published: 05/20/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Excalibur IP, LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: King, Simon P., Davis, Marc Eliot, Higgins, Christopher William, Nair, Rahul
• Application Number:
  US12/273,317
• Publication Number:
  US 20100125569A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/722
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A system and method for autohyperlinking and navagation in URL based context queries. A result set from a context query is received from a user over a network, wherein the result set comprises at least one reference to a data object and further comprises the context query. The reference to the data object is translated, via the network, to a URL configured to retrieve the data object. A plurality of related URLs are generated via the network, wherein the result set of the context query is used to seed generation. At least one advertisement associated with the context query is retrieved via the network. A webpage comprising the URL configured to retrieve the data object, the plurality of related URLs and the advertisement is assembled and transmitted over the network to the user.

Claims

1. A method comprising the steps of:

receiving from a user, over a network, a result set from a context query, wherein the result set comprises at least one reference to a data object and further comprises the context query;

translating, via the network, the at least one reference to a data object to a URL configured to retrieve the data object;

generating, via the network, a plurality of related URLs, wherein the result set of the context query is used to seed generation;

retrieving, via the network, at least one advertisements associated with the context query;

assembling a webpage comprising the at least one URL, the plurality of related URLs and the at least one advertisements.;

transmitting the webpage to the user over the network.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein if the result set from the context query comprises a plurality of references to data objects relating to the same content, only one of the plurality of references is selected and translated to a URL configured to retrieve the data object.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the only one of the plurality of references is selected because it relates to the highest quality embodiment of the content within the plurality of references to data objects relating to the same content.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein the only one of the plurality of references is selected because it relates top content provided by a preferred source.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one reference to a data object is a reference to a cluster of data objects relating to an entity, at least one reference to a data object is translated to a URL based context query configured to retrieve the cluster of data objects relating to the entity.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one reference to a data object is a reference to an entity comprising a plurality of data objects relating to the entity, one of the plurality of data objects is selected and translated to a URL configured to retrieve the data object.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the plurality of related URLs are generated using at least one cluster generation criteria.

9. The method of claim 9 wherein the at least one cluster generation criteria is a clustering threshold.

8. The method of claim 9 wherein the at least one cluster generation criteria comprises at least one data axis limitation.

10. A system comprising:

a context query result set receiving module that receives result sets of context queries from users, wherein each result set comprises at least one reference to a data object and further comprises the context query that produced the result set;

a reference translation module that translates, for each result set received by the context query result set receiving module, the at least one reference to a data object to a URL configured to retrieve the data object

a related URL generation module that generates, for each for each result set received by the context query result set receiving module, a plurality of related URLs, wherein the result set of the context query is used to seed generation;

an advertisement retrieval module that retrieves, for each result set received by the context query result set receiving module, at least one advertisements associated with the context query that produced the result set;

a webpage assembly module that assembles, for each result set processed by the reference translation module, the related URL generation module and the advertisement retrieval module, a dynamic webpage comprising the at least one URL, the plurality of related URLs and the at least one advertisement associated with the result set;

a dynamic webpage transmission module that transmits each webpage assembled by the webpage assembly module to the user associated with the result set that was used to assemble the webpage.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein at least some of the result sets received by the context query result set receiving module comprise a plurality of references to data objects relating to the same content and wherein for such result sets, the reference translation module selects and translates only one of the plurality of references to a URL configured to retrieve the data object.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the only one of the plurality of references is selected by the reference translation module because it relates to the highest quality embodiment of the content within the plurality of references to data objects relating to the same content.

13. The system of claim 11 wherein the only one of the plurality of references is selected by the reference translation module because it relates to content provided by a preferred source.

14. The system of claim 10 wherein in at least some of the result sets received by the context query result set receiving module, the at least one reference to a data object is a reference to a cluster of data objects relating to an entity, and wherein for each of such references, the reference translation module translates at least one reference to a data object to a URL based context query configured to retrieve the cluster of data objects relating to the entity.

15. The system of claim 10 wherein in at least some of the result sets received by the context query result set receiving module, the at least one reference to a data object is a reference to a plurality of data objects relating to an entity, and wherein for each of such references, the reference translation module selects and translates one of the plurality of data objects relating to the entity to a URL configured to retrieve the data object.

16. The system of claim 10 wherein for at least some of the result sets received by the context query result set receiving module, the plurality of related URLs are generated by the related URL generation module using at least one cluster generation criteria.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the at least one cluster generation criteria comprises at least one data axis limitation.

18. The method of claim 16 wherein the at least one cluster generation criteria is a clustering threshold.

19. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for a method comprising the steps:

receiving from a user, over a network, a result set from a context query, wherein the result set comprises at least one reference to a data object and further comprises the context query;

translating, via the network, the at least one reference to a data object to a URL configured to retrieve the data object;

generating, via the network, a plurality of related URLs, wherein the result set of the context query is used to seed generation;

retrieving, via the network, at least one advertisements associated with the context query;

assembling a webpage comprising the at least one URL, the plurality of related URLs and the at least one advertisements.;

transmitting the webpage to the user over the network.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 19 wherein if the result set from the context query comprises a plurality of references to data objects relating to the same content, only one of the plurality of references is selected and translated to a URL configured to retrieve the data object.

21. The computer-readable medium of claim 20 wherein the only one of the plurality of references is selected because it relates to the highest quality embodiment of the content within the plurality of references to data objects relating to the same content.

22. The computer-readable medium of claim 20 wherein the only one of the plurality of references is selected because it relates top content provided by a preferred source.

23. The computer-readable medium of claim 19 wherein the at least one reference to a data object is a reference to a cluster of data objects relating to an entity, at least one reference to a data object is translated to a URL based context query configured to retrieve the cluster of data objects relating to the entity.

24. The computer-readable medium of claim 19 wherein the at least one reference to a data object is a reference to an entity comprising a plurality of data objects relating to the entity, one of the plurality of data objects is selected and translated to a URL configured to retrieve the data object.

25. The method of claim 19 wherein the plurality of related URLs are generated using at least one cluster generation criteria.

26. The method of claim 25 wherein the at least one cluster generation criteria comprises at least one data axis limitation.

27. The method of claim 25 wherein the at least one cluster generation criteria is a clustering threshold.