SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR COMPOUND SEARCHING

• US 20110167052A1
• Filed: 03/14/2011
• Published: 07/07/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michelli Capital LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Michelli Capital LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: McCord, Alan, Boys, Donald R., Galvin, Brian
• Application Number:
  US13/046,954
• Publication Number:
  US 20110167052A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3322 using system suggestions G06F16/3325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

An apparatus includes at least one computing device configured to send a search query to at least one network server; receive questions from the at least one network server based on the search query; send responses to the at least one network server based on the questions; and receive a search result from the at least one network server based on the responses. The at least one computing device is further configured to send the search query and/or receive the search result via a cellular telephone network, a wireless fidelity network, and/or a digital subscriber line network. A system includes at least one server configured to receive a search query from a computing device; send questions to the computing device based on the search query; receive information from the computing device based on the questions; and send a search result to the computing device based on the information.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one computing device configured to;

send a search query to at least one network server;

receive two or more questions from the at least one network server based on the search query;

send at least two responses to the at least one network server based on the two or more questions; and

receive a search result from the at least one network server based on the at least two responses.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to at least one of send the search query or receive the search result via at least one of a cellular telephone network, a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network, or a digital subscriber line (DSL) network.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to receive the search result from the at least one network server based on a stored profile associated with the at least one computing device.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the search result includes a ranked list of information returned from one or more search engines associated with the at least one network server.

5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the information is returned from the one or more search engines based on respective search queries submitted via respective search engines of the one or more search engines.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to send the search query via a web page.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least one computing device is further configured to:

send location information to the at least one network server; and

receive at least one question of the two or more questions from the at least one network server based on the location information.

8. An system, comprising:

at least one server of a network configured to;

receive a search query from a computing device;

send questions to the computing device based on the search query;

receive information from the computing device based on the questions; and

send a search result to the computing device based on the information.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one server is further configured to:

generate the search result utilizing at least one search engine coupled to the network.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one server is further configured to:

submit one or more search queries via respective search engines of the at least one search engine; and

generate the search result based on the one or more search queries.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one server is further configured to:

rank pages returned by the at least one search engine into a ranked list; and

send the ranked list to the computing device.

12. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one server is further configured to:

record a history of at least one search query received from the computing device; and

generate the search result based on the history.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one server is further configured to:

receive location information from the computing device; and

generate the search result based on the location information.

14. An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

sending a search query to at least one server of a network;

receiving at least two questions from the at least one server in response to the sending the search query;

sending two or more responses to the at least one server based on the receiving the at least two questions; and

receiving one or more search results from the at least one server in response to the sending the two or more responses.

15. The article of manufacture of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving the at least two questions and the one or more search results from the at least one server via at least one of a cellular telephone network, a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) network, or a digital subscriber line (DSL) network.

16. The article of manufacture of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

sending the search query to the at least one server via a web page.

17. The article of manufacture of claim 14, wherein the operations further comprise:

sending information associated with the location of the computing system to the at least one server; and

receiving one or more questions of the at least two questions from the at least one server based on the information.

18. An article of manufacture including a computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving a query from a computing device;

sending questions to the computing device based on the query;

receiving information from the computing device based on the questions; and

sending a search result to the computing device based on the information.

19. The article of manufacture of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise:

submitting, in response to the receiving the query, search queries via respective search engines; and

generating the search result in response to the submitting the search queries.

20. The article of manufacture of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

ranking pages returned by the respective search engines; and

sending a result of the ranking to the computing device.