SEARCH ACTIVITY PREDICTION

• US 20140114941A1
• Filed: 10/22/2012
• Published: 04/24/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Recorded Future, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Recorded Future, Inc.
• Inventors: Ahlberg, Christopher, Ladd, Bill, Sparks, Evan
• Granted Patent: US 11,755,663 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/953 Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines

Abstract

Disclosed, in one general aspect, is a computer-based method and apparatus for extracting predictive information from a collection of stored, machine-readable electronic documents. The method includes accessing at least a subset of the electronic documents each including different machine-readable predictive information about one or more future facts occurring after a publication time for that document. The method also includes extracting the predictive information about the one or more future facts from the accessed documents, and deriving one or more predicted query information items based on the predictive information extracted in the step of extracting.

Claims

1. A computer-based method for extracting predictive information from a collection of stored, machine-readable electronic documents, comprising:

accessing at least a subset of the electronic documents each including different machine-readable predictive information about one or more future facts occurring after a publication time for that document,

extracting the predictive information about the one or more future facts from the accessed documents, and

deriving one or more predicted query information items based on the predictive information extracted in the step of extracting.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of deriving predicted query information derives search engine queries.

3. The method of claim 1 further including the step of deriving advertising selections based on the step of deriving predicted query information.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of deriving predicted query information derives result pages for the queries.

5. The method of claim 4 further including the step of deriving advertising selections for the result pages based on the step of deriving predicted query information.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of deriving predicted query information derives keywords for queries.

7. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of deriving predicted information queries derives results for queries.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of extracting information includes extracting a predicted time of occurrence for one or more of the facts.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of extracting information includes extracting a predicted likelihood of occurrence for one or more of the facts.

10. An apparatus for extracting predictive information from a collection of stored, machine-readable electronic documents, comprising:

an interface for accessing at least a subset of the electronic documents each including different machine-readable predictive information about one or more future facts occurring after a publication time for that document,

a predictive information extraction subsystem operative to extract predictive information about the one or more future facts from the accessed documents, and

a predictive query information derivation subsystem operative to derive one or more predicted query information items based on the predictive information extracted by the predictive information extraction subsystem.

11. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the predictive query information derivation subsystem is operative to derive search engine queries.

12. The apparatus of claim 10 further including an advertising selection derivation subsystem responsive to the predictive query information derivation subsystem.

13. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the predictive query information derivation subsystem is operative to derive result pages for the queries.

14. The apparatus of claim 13 further including an advertising selection derivation subsystem for the result pages responsive to the predictive query information derivation subsystem.

15. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the predictive query information derivation subsystem is operative to derive keywords for queries.

16. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the predictive query information derivation subsystem is operative to derive results for queries.

17. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the information extraction subsystem is operative to extract a predicted time of occurrence for one or more of the facts.

18. The apparatus of claim 10 wherein the information extraction subsystem is operative to extract a predicted likelihood of occurrence for one or more of the facts.

19. An apparatus for extracting predictive information from a collection of stored, machine-readable electronic documents, comprising:

means for accessing at least a subset of the electronic documents each including different machine-readable predictive information about one or more future facts occurring after a publication time for that document,

means for extracting the predictive information about the one or more future facts from the accessed documents, and

means for deriving one or more predicted query information items based on the predictive information extracted by the means for extracting.