Providing search information relating to a document

• US 8,386,453 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2004
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Khaliq, Siraj, Brougher, William C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pham, Hung Q
• Assistant Examiner(s): CHEUNG, HUBERT G
• Application Number:
  US10/953,112
• Publication Number:
  US 20060074868A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,071 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9532 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9558 Details of hyperlinks; Management of linked annotations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A system identifies a document, performs a search to identify web documents relating to an attribute associated with the document, and provides information associated with the web documents and the document.

Claims

1. A method performed using a computer system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a client device over a network, a search query;

performing a first search to identify a set of search results based on the received search query;

presenting the identified set of search results for display on the client device;

receiving, from the client device, selection of one search result of the identified set of search results;

presenting, for display on the client device, a reference page associated with a scanned document associated with the selected one search result of the identified set of search results, the reference page comprising information regarding the scanned document and a plurality of links, each link of the plurality of links being associated with a second search associated with an attribute associated with the scanned document;

receiving, from the client device, selection of a link from the plurality of links;

performing the second search, based on the received selection of the link, to identify web documents based on the attribute associated with the scanned document; and

presenting, based on the performed second search, a result of the second search for display on the client device as a second reference page associated with the scanned document, the second reference page including information regarding the identified web documents and a link associated with an additional search associated with the attribute.

2. The method of claim 1, where the presenting the result of the second search for display as the second reference page comprises:

identifying a web document relating to the attribute;

extracting information from the identified web document; and

presenting the extracted information on the second reference page for display on the client device.

3. The method of claim 1, where the presenting the result of the second search for display as the second reference page comprises:

generating scores for the identified web documents;

sorting the identified web documents based on the generated scores; and

presenting the sorted identified web documents on the second reference page for display on the client device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the generating the scores for the identified web documents comprises:

generating information retrieval scores for the identified web documents;

generating link-based scores for the identified web documents; and

generating overall scores for the identified web documents based on the generated information retrieval scores and the generated link-based scores.

5. The method of claim 1, where the reference page comprises at least one of:

a description of the contents of the scanned document;

text associated with one of a jacket, a cover, or a flap associated with the scanned document;

bibliographic information associated with the scanned document;

or

an advertisement.

6. The method of claim 1, where the reference page comprises:

an excerpt from the scanned document; and

a set of links to portions of the scanned document.

7. The method of claim 6, where the excerpt comprises an image of a portion of text from the scanned document.

8. The method of claim 6, where the set of links references at least one of:

a front cover associated with the scanned document;

a table of contents associated with the scanned document;

an index associated with the scanned document;

or

a back cover associated with the scanned document.

9. The method of claim 1, where the link associated with the additional search was generated by performing the second search.

10. The method of claim 1, where the second reference page further comprises at least one of:

a description of the contents of the scanned document;

text associated with one of a jacket, a cover, or a flap associated with the scanned document;

bibliographic information associated with the scanned document;

or

an advertisement.

11. The method of claim 10, where the advertisement is associated with or derived from at least one of the received search query, the scanned document, or user behavior.

12. The method of claim 1, where the second reference page further comprises:

an excerpt from the scanned document; and

a set of links to portions of the scanned document.

13. The method of claim 1, where the attribute corresponds to at least one of a title, an author, a category, a publisher, or a publication date associated with the scanned document.

14. A system, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor to execute the stored instructions to;

identify a set of search results;

receive selection of one search result of the identified set of search results;

present, based on the received selection of the one search result of the identified set of search results, a reference page associated with a scanned document associated with the selected one search result of the identified set of search results, the reference page including a link to perform a search based on an attribute associated with the scanned document;

receive selection of the link;

perform the search, based on the received selection of the link, to identify a web document with information relating to the attribute associated with the scanned document; and

present, based on the performed search, information associated with the identified web document as a second reference page, the second reference page including information regarding the identified web document and a link to perform a second search associated with the attribute.

15. The system of claim 14, where the processor further executes the stored instructions to:

generate a score for the identified web document;

sort the identified web document in a group of web documents based on the generated score; and

present the sorted identified web document in the group of web documents.

16. The system of claim 14, where the processor further executes the stored instructions to:

extract information from the identified web document; and

present the extracted information.

17. A method comprising:

receiving identification of a document from a user device;

presenting, to the user device, a reference page associated with the identified document, the reference page including a link associated with a plurality of searches for web documents relating to attributes associated with the identified document;

receiving, from the user device, selection of the link;

automatically performing, based on the received selection of the link, a plurality of searches to identify web documents relating to the attributes; and

providing, based on the automatically performed plurality of searches, a second reference page, the second reference page including information regarding the identified web documents and a link associated with a second plurality of searches associated with the attributes.

18. The method of claim 17, where the providing the second reference page includes:

extracting information from the identified web documents; and

presenting the extracted information in the second reference page.

19. The method of claim 17, where the providing the second reference page includes:

generating scores for the identified web documents;

sorting the identified web documents based on the generated scores; and

presenting the sorted identified web documents in the second reference page.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable memory device containing instructions executable by one or more processors, the instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to;

identify a scanned document;

present a reference page associated with the identified scanned document, the reference page including a link associated with a search for a web document with information relating to an attribute associated with the identified scanned document;

receive selection of the link;

perform the search, based on the received selection of the link, to identify web documents with information relating to the attribute;

extract information from the identified web documents; and

present a second reference page, the second reference page including the extracted information along with a second link associated with a second search for a web document with information relating to the attribute.

21. The non-transitory computer-readable memory device of claim 20, the instructions further comprising:

one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to;

generate scores for the identified web documents;

sort the identified web documents based on the generated scores; and

present the sorted identified web documents.

22. The non-transitory computer-readable memory device of claim 21, the instructions further comprising:

one or more instructions that cause the one or more processors to;

generate information retrieval scores for the identified web documents;

generate link-based scores for the identified web documents; and

generate overall scores for the identified web documents based on the generated information retrieval scores and the generated link-based scores.

23. A method performed using a computer system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a client device over a network, a search query;

performing a first search to identify a set of search results based on the received search query;

presenting the identified set of search results for display on the client device;

receiving, from the client device, selection of one search result of the identified set of search results;

presenting, for display on the client device, a reference page associated with a scanned document associated with the selected one search result of the identified set of search results, the reference page comprising information regarding the scanned document and a link associated with a second search;

receiving, from the client device, selection of the link;

performing the second search, in response to the received selection of the link, to identify web documents based on an attribute associated with the scanned document;

generating scores for the identified web documents;

sorting the identified web documents based on the generated scores;

presenting, for display on the client device, the sorted identified web documents;

identifying a web document of the sorted identified web documents, the web document relating to the attribute;

extracting information from the identified web document of the sorted identified web documents; and

presenting, for display on the client device, the extracted information along with a second link associated with a third search for a web document with information relating to the attribute.

24. The method of claim 23, where the presenting the sorted identified web documents comprises:

presenting a second reference page associated with the scanned document, the second reference page including a link to the web document with the information relating to the attribute.

25. The method of claim 24, where the link was generated by performing the second search.