Method And Means For Data Searching And Language Translation

• US 20160154810A1
• Filed: 01/28/2016
• Published: 06/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Mikko Vaananen
• Original Assignee: Mikko Vaananen
• Inventors: Vaananen, Mikko
• Granted Patent: US 9,953,092 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24522 Translation of natural language queries to structured queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3338 Query expansion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

The invention relates to data searching and translation. In particular, the invention relates to searching documents from the Internet or databases. Even further, the invention also relates to translating words in documents, WebPages, images or speech from one language to the next. A computer implemented method comprising at least one computer in accordance with the invention is characterised by the following steps: receiving a search query including at least one search term, deriving at least one synonym for at least one search term, expanding the received search query with the at least one synonym, searching at least one document using the expanded search query, retrieving the search results obtained with the expanded query, ranking the said search results based on context of occurrence of at least one search term. The best mode of the invention is considered to be an Internet search engine that delivers better search results.

Claims

1. A Internet Search Engine stored in a memory medium of at least one server computer, wherein

a mixed search input query, comprising at least one text term and at least one image, is arranged to be extracted from visual data arranged to be provided by the camera of a mobile subscriber terminal, is received by said Internet search engine,

at least one document is arranged to be searched using the said mixed search input query comprising the at least one image with at least one server computer by said Internet search engine,

most relevant search results obtained with the said mixed search input query are arranged to be retrieved to the mobile subscriber terminal by said Internet search engine.

2. A Internet Search Engine as claimed in claim 1, characterised in that, the nixed search input query is arranged to be divided into different search queries by the Internet search engine that are executed by different computers.

3. A Internet Search Engine as c aimed in claim 1, characterised in that, at least one search result is arranged to be ranked based on location of the at least one mobile subscriber terminal and/or the nationality of the user of the mobile subscriber terminal.

4. A Internet Search Engine as claimed in claim 1, characterised in that, speech is arranged to be used as input for search.