Method and system for enhanced web searching

• US 7,668,859 B2
• Filed: 04/18/2006
• Issued: 02/23/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Foy Streetman
• Original Assignee: Foy Streetman
• Inventors: Streetman, Foy
• Primary Examiner(s): Mofiz; Apu M
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEN, TE Y
• Application Number:
  US11/379,095
• Publication Number:
  US 20070244858A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,407 Days
• Field of Search: 707/102, 707/6, 704/251, 715/827
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A system for user-directed acquisition over a wide area network includes a client computer, a database having information data relating to user-entered text of HTML pages, and a server computer having a program software stored on the storage device to receive a user-entered word data in a first language from the client, to receive a user-entered geographic search area data from said client, and wherein the program software is associated with software for generating a translation language pair data and for translating the word data in accordance with the language corresponding to the user entered geographic search area data, software for accessing said information data as a function of the translated word data, and software for transmitting the accessed information data to the client-computer. A method is also provided.

Claims

1. A method which provides a more effective web searching, which includes the steps of:

(a) operably associating program software with a computer based device which is operably connected to an Internet, wherein the program software a predefined map of a world in a click on geographic area of a screen and enables a user to select a particular geographic area data of the map, said program software further providing said map to be interactive which allows said user to click on a desired part of said map to render a first zoom level and zoom in on said screen a part of said clicked map to a refine geographic area whereby a translation language pair data is generated corresponding to said selected particular geographic area data and said screen further provides a key word data field and enables the user to input through the computer based device query key word data into said key word data field which is accessible by an information retrieval function of said program software corresponding to said translation language pair data, and

(b) providing a reference data source associated with said translation language pair data for enabling translation of said query key word data into a translated query key word data, whereby said translated query key word data is accessible by said information retrieval function in a manner to retrieve information data over the Internet as a function of said translation language pair data and said selected particular geographic area data to form a new customized map and display said new map in a user entered geographic area on said same screen.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the program software includes search engine software.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the search engine software is integrated into a server-side web site.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the search engine software is integrated into a client-side web browser.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said program software includes means for ranking said information data according to relevancy.

6. The method of claim 1, which is further characterized such that said program software provides that if more than one said translation language pair is generated for said selected particular geographic area, said program software provides for the user click on one of said language pairs or click on another portion of the first zoom level to bring up a more specified second zoom level and further defining said translation language pair.

7. A method over a wide area network including a server and a client, for client-directed acquisition of information relating to client-entered text data, comprising:

(a) employing a computer based device having program software operably associated therewith for displaying a predefined map of a world in a click on geographic area of a screen and enabling the client to select a particular geographic area data of the map, said program software further providing said map to be interactive which allows a user to click on a desired part of said map to render a first zoom level and zoom in on said screen a part of said clicked map to a refine geographic area whereby a translation language pair data is generated to the client corresponding to said selected particular geographic area data and said screen further provides a text data field and enables the user to input through the computer based device query text into said text data field which is accessible by an information retrieval function of said program software corresponding to said translation language pair data to form a new customized map and display said new map in a user entered geographic area on said same screen;

(b) receiving client-entered query text data in a first language;

(c) receiving client selected geographic area data;

(d) generating a translation language pair data including the first language and a second language corresponding to said selected geographic area data and having an associated translation reference source data for such language pair;

(e) translating said query client-entered text data into the second language using said translation reference data source to provide translated text data;

(f) accessing over the network information relating to said translated text data;

(g) translating said accessed information into the first language; and

(h) transmitting to the client said accessed information data for displaying on said screen.

8. The method of claim 7, which method further comprises an Internet search engine operatively associated with the server for accessing the information over the Internet.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein said program software includes means for ranking said information data according to relevancy.

10. The method of claim 7, which is further characterized such that said program software provides that if more than one said translation language pair is generated for said selected particular geographic area, said program software provides for the user click on one of said language pairs or click on another portion of the first zoom level to bring up a more specified second zoom level and further defining said translation language pair.

11. A system for user-directed acquisition over a wide area network, comprising:

a client computer;

a database having information data relating to user-entered text of HTML pages; and

a server computer having a processor, a memory, and a storage device, and wherein the processor and memory are operative with a program software stored on the storage device for displaying a predefined map of a world in a click on geographic area of a screen and enables the client computer to select a particular geographic area data of the map, said program software further providing said map to be interactive which allows a user to click on a desired part of said map to render a first zoom level and zoom in on said screen a part of said clicked map to a refine geographic area whereby a translation language pair is generated to said client computer corresponding to said selected particular geographic area data and said screen further provides a word data field to receive a client computer entered word data in a first language from said client computer, to receive selected geographic area data from said client computer, and wherein said program software is associated with software for translating said client word data in accordance with the language corresponding to said selected geographic search area data to provide translation word data to form a new customized map and display said new map in a user entered geographic area on said same screen, said program software further accesses said information data as a function of said translated word data, and transmits the accessed information data to said client computer.

12. The system of claim 11, which method further comprises an Internet search engine operatively associated with said server computer for accessing the information over the Internet.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein said program software includes means for ranking said information data according to relevancy.

14. The system of claim 11, which is further characterized such that said program software provides that if more than one said translation language pair is generated for said selected particular geographic area, said program software provides for the user click on one of said language pairs or click on another portion of the first zoom level to bring up a more specified second zoom level and further defining said translation language pair.

15. A system for enhanced communication over a network, comprising:

a local computer; and

remote computer having program software operably associated with said local computer for displaying a predefined map of a world in a click on geographic area of a screen and enables said local computer to select a particular geographic area data of the map, said program software further providing said map to be interactive which allows a user to click on a desired part of said map to render a first zoom level and zoom in on said screen a part of said clicked map to a refine geographic area whereby a translation language pair is generated to said local computer corresponding to said selected particular geographic area data and said screen further provides a word data field and for enabling said user-entered word data in a first language from said local computer for translating said user-entered word data in accordance with the language corresponding to said user selected geographic area data to provide translation word data to form a new customized map and display said new map in a user entered geographic area on said same screen, and for accessing information data as a function of said translated word data and for transmitting said accessed information data to said local computer.

16. The system of claim 15, which is further characterized such that said program software provides that if more than one said translation language pair is generated for said selected particular geographic area, said program software provides for the user click on one of said language pairs or click on another portion of the first zoom level to bring up a more specified second zoom level and further defining said translation language pair.