Responding to end-user request for information in a computer network

• US 7,512,603 B1
• Filed: 11/05/2002
• Issued: 03/31/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/05/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Gula Consulting Limited Liability Company (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Claria Corporation
• Inventors: Goulden, David L., Martin, Anthony G., Veteska, Eugene A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee; Wilson
• Assistant Examiner(s): Black; Linh
• Application Number:
  US10/289,123
• Time in Patent Office: 2,338 Days
• Field of Search: 707 1- 4, 707/6, 707/10, 707/100, 707/102, 705/25
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99936 Pattern matching access
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method to be performed in a client computer includes the acts of sending a request for information from a client computer to a first server computer accessible over a computer network, receiving in the client computer a first response to the request for information, and receiving in the client computer a second response to the request for information. The first server computer may include a search engine and the first response may be a search result from the search engine. The second response may be a search result presented by a message delivery program resident in the client computer. The second response may include a message content that relates to a keyword employed by the end-user in the request for information. Because the keyword represents the end-user'"'"'s interest in a topic, the chance of the end-user being interested in the message content is increased.

Claims

1. A client computer comprising:

computer-readable program code in the client computer configured to detect when an end-user employing the client computer submits a request for information to a first server computer;

computer-readable program code in the client computer configured to extract a keyword from the request for information;

computer-readable program code in the client computer configured to identify a message relating to the keyword, the message coming from a second server computer;

computer-readable program code in the client computer configured to process a content of the message; and

a keyword file in the client computer comprising a list of non-relevant keywords.

2. A method to be performed in a computer, the method comprising:

receiving in a client computer a plurality of messages from a first server computer, the client computer being employed by a user to submit a search request to a search engine;

in the client computer, determining an address of a second server computer an end-user is navigating to;

in the client computer, parsing the address to obtain a keyword; and

in the client computer, identifying a message relating to the keyword.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein identifying the message in the client computer comprises:

consulting a list of relevant keywords.

4. The method of claim 2 wherein identifying the message in the client computer comprises:

consulting a list of non-relevant keywords.

5. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

in the client computer, processing a content of the message.

6. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

in the client computer, displaying a web page identified by the message, the web page including a search result.