SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR NETWORK OBJECT CREATION AND IMPROVED SEARCH RESULT REPORTING

• US 20110082898A1
• Filed: 07/05/2010
• Published: 04/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/05/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tynt Multimedia, Inc. (33Across, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Tynt Multimedia, Inc. (33Across, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ball, Derek, MacKenzie, Allan, Foster, Dayton
• Granted Patent: US 8,645,457 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/202
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3495 for systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/173 using an interconnection network, e.g. matrix, shuffle, pyramid, star, snowflake
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/00 Digital computing or data processing equipment or methods, specially adapted for specific functions information retrieval, database structures or file system structures therefor G06F16/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/875 Monitoring of systems including the internet
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

Systems and methods are described that may be used for the creation of user defined objects arising from the implicit interaction of a user with a network resource. The objects are made generally available within the network. A network resource in communication with a network maintains content accessible by a plurality of users of the network. An agent provided to a user device identifies an implicit interaction with a portion of the content and transmits information associated with the implicit interaction to another computing system communicatively connected to the network. The information includes a URL identifying the network resource and the portion of the content and is provided in a user-defined object on the network. Frequency of occurrence of a URL in a plurality of the objects can be used to determine relevance of a network resource and its content.

Claims

1. A system for determining relevance of a network resource, the system comprising:

a network resource in communication with a network, wherein the network resource maintains content accessible by a plurality of users of the network; and

an agent provided to a user device operated by the user and configured to identify an implicit interaction with a portion of the content and further configured to transmit information associated with the implicit interaction to another computing system communicatively connected to the network, wherein

the information includes a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) identifying the network resource and the portion of the content, and wherein

the portion of the content is provided in a user-defined object on the network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user device includes a browser configured to display the content.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the agent is delivered with the content displayed on the user device.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the implicit user interaction includes selecting the portion of the content.

5. The system of claim 3, wherein the implicit user interaction includes a copy transaction in which the user copies the portion of the content.

6. The system of claim 3, wherein the information includes a geographic location of the user device.

7. The system of claim 3, wherein the object is maintained in a networked repository of objects.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the repository of objects is indexed according to one or more keywords in the objects.

9. The system of claim 7, wherein the repository of objects is indexed using metatag information for each object, the metatag information provided by a network resource that provided the content associated with the each object.

10. The system of claim 3, wherein the object is one of a plurality of objects generated from implicit interactions with content of the network resource and further comprising an analyzer that calculates frequency of occurrence of hyperlink references to the network resource in the objects.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the frequency of hyperlink references to the network resource is used to calculate relevance of the content.

12. An agent provided to a user computing device, the agent comprising instructions and data, the instructions, when executed by the user computing device cause the user computing device to:

identify an implicit interaction of a user with content received from a network resource and displayed in a browser of the user computing device;

copy at least a portion of the content associated with the implicit interaction; and

provide information associated with the implicit interaction to a server, wherein the information includes the copied portion of the content and a URL identifying the network resource and the portion of the content,

and wherein the server is configured to provide the information associated with the implicit interaction to users of the network.

13. The agent of claim 12, wherein the agent is delivered with the content displayed on the user computing device.

14. The agent of claim 12, wherein the implicit interaction includes at least one of printing a portion of the content, selecting a portion of the content and copying a portion of the content.