Sharing user distributed search results

• US 7,844,603 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Issued: 11/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Collison, Derek L., Sjogreen, Carl P., Lucovsky, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Vital; Pierre M
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nofal; Christopher P
• Application Number:
  US11/420,966
• Publication Number:
  US 20070198500A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,645 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/728
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• 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: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/922 Communications

Abstract

A universal distributed search system allows users to find and distribute search results (possibly including advertisements) to those with whom they communicate. The search results can be easily distributed by the user via a simple interface that allows the search results to be easily added to the user'"'"'s content. Search queries entered by the user or search results received from search components may be automatically refined by the system.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a memory to store instructions to provide, to a user, a content creation application comprising;

a first interface to edit and compose an email message by a user,

a second interface to receive a search query,

logic to modify, in response to receiving the search query, the search query by adding one or more additional search terms to the search query, where the one or more additional search terms are based on one or more parameters associated with the email message,

logic to receive search results relating to the modified search query,

logic to modify, in response to receiving the search results, a relevance order of the search results based on information relating to an intended recipient of the email message, where the information relating to the intended recipient includes information based on past searches by the intended recipient, and

logic to display, in the second interface, the modified search results and a save link associated with each of the search results,

logic to receive a selection of one or more save links, and

logic to incorporate, in response to the selection, one or more of the search results corresponding to the selected one or more save links into the email message in the first interface; and

a processor to execute the instructions.

2. The device of claim 1, where the logic to automatically modify the search query modifies the search query based on a type of the content creation application.

3. The device of claim 1, where the logic to automatically modify the search query modifies the search query based on information relating to a user of the content creation application.

4. The device of claim 1, where the content creation application includes a web-based email application.

5. The device of claim 1, where the logic to automatically modify the search query modifies the search query by including synonyms or stems of terms in the search query, suggesting spelling corrections, or suggesting alternative queries.

6. The device of claim 1, where the content creation application additionally comprises:

logic to submit the modified search query to a network search component.

7. The device of claim 6, where the network search component includes a web search component, an image search component, a video search component, a local search component, a geographic search component, a product search component, a listing search component, an email search component, a blog search component, a message group search component, a news search component, a digitized content search component, a desktop search component, or an advertisement search component.

8. A method performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

providing, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, an interface to facilitate composition of a message by a first user and intended for a second user;

receiving, by one of the one or more server devices, a search query from the first user;

modifying, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices and in response to receiving the search query, the search query from the user by adding one or more additional search terms to the search query, where the adding one or more additional search terms is based on a type of a content creation application implemented by the interface;

initiating, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, a search based on the modified search query;

receiving, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, results of the search;

providing, by one of the one or more server devices, the results of the search in the interface, the displayed results of the search each including a selection object;

receiving, by one of the server devices, selections of the selection objects from the first user;

incorporating, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices and in response to receiving the selections, the results of the search that correspond to the selections of the selection objects into a content the email message in the interface;

selecting, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, an advertisement based on the selections;

incorporating, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, the selected advertisement into the content of the email message; and

providing, by one of the one or more server devices, the email message to the second user.

9. The method of claim 8, where automatically modifying the search query includes modifying the search query based on information relating to the first user.

10. The method of claim 8, where automatically modifying the search query includes modifying the search query based on information relating to the second user.

11. The method of claim 8, where initiating the search includes transmitting the search query to a plurality of search services, the plurality of search services returning one or more search result types.

12. The method of claim 11, where the search result types include web search results, image search results, video search results, local search results, geographic search results, product search results, listing search results, email search results, blog search results, message group search results, news search results, digitized content search results, desktop search results, or advertisements.

13. The method of claim 8, where initiating the search includes transmitting the search query to a search component implemented locally at a computer of the first user.

14. A method performed by one or more server devices, the method comprising:

providing, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, an interface configured to facilitate composition of text by a first user;

receiving, by one of the one or more server devices, a search query from the first user;

initiating, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, a search based on the search query;

receiving, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, results of the search;

modifying, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices and in response to receiving the results of the search, a relevance order of the results of the search based on a type of a content creation application implemented by the interface;

providing, by one of the one or more server devices, the results of the search in the interface using the modified relevance order, the provided results of the search each including a selection object;

receiving, by one of the one or more server devices, a selection of one or more of the selection objects from the first user;

incorporating, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices and in response to receiving the selection, the results of the search, that correspond to the one or more of the selection objects, into the text in the interface;

providing, by one of the one or more server devices, the text and the incorporated results of the search to a second user;

receiving, by one of the one or more server devices, a request to access one of the incorporated results from the second user;

analyzing, by a processor associated with the one or server devices and in response to receiving the request, the request to access the one of the incorporated results from the second user; and

adjusting, by a processor associated with the one or more server devices, a reputation score of the first user based on the analyzed request from the second user.

15. The method of claim 14, where automatically modifying a relevance order of the results of the search includes modifying the relevance order of the results of the search based on information relating to the first user.

16. The method of claim 14, where automatically modifying a relevance order of the results of the search includes modifying the relevance order of the results of the search based on information relating to the second user.

17. The method of claim 14, where initiating the search includes transmitting the search query to a plurality of search services, the plurality of search services returning one or more search result types.