Interactive media card

• US 8,856,101 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2012
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Normand Pigeon
• Original Assignee: Normand Pigeon
• Inventors: Pigeon, Normand
• Primary Examiner(s): Beausoliel, Jr., Robert
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, NICHOLAS E
• Application Number:
  US13/647,627
• Publication Number:
  US 20130097147A1
• Time in Patent Office: 728 Days
• Field of Search: 717/107
• US Class Current: 707/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results

Abstract

A method for creating and searching within an entity-defined profile is disclosed. A search engine is provided for searching within first data for data meeting known criteria. The search engine receives criteria data comprising a first media card. The media card relates to an individual or organization. Result data associated with the criteria data is retrieved, the result data associated with at least some data within the first media card to provide search results, and then the search results are displayed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

storing first data on a first server, the first data comprising a first media card, the first media card when displayed via a display portion of a computer providing a visual representation of a subset of data within a capsule associated with a first individual for distribution of data from within the capsule;

transmitting via a communication network from the first server the first data to an input port of a search engine, the first data provided as search criteria for the search engine;

receiving the first data via the input port by the search engine;

using the search engine, searching within second data different than the first data, for first result data based on the first data and relating directly to the first individual; and

displaying, via a display portion of a first computer, search results based on the first result data.

2. The method according to claim 1 wherein the search engine is in execution on the first computer.

3. The method according to claim 1 wherein the search engine is in execution on the first server in communication with the first computer.

4. The method according to claim 1 wherein the search engine is in execution on a second server in communication with the first computer and wherein the second data comprises a user specified data store comprising capsule data associated uniquely with a second individual.

5. The method according to claim 1 wherein the search engine is in execution on a second server in communication with the first computer and wherein the second data comprises capsule data comprising a plurality of user specified data stores associated uniquely with a second individual.

6. The method according to claim 4 wherein the second data comprises a data store accessed via the Internet.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the search engine comprises an Internet search engine.

8. The method according to claim 1 wherein the search criteria further comprises a Boolean operation.

9. The method according to claim 8 wherein the first result data is based on the first data and the Boolean operation applied to the first data.

10. The method according to claim 1 wherein the search criteria further comprises a keyword.

11. The method according to claim 10 wherein the first result data is based on the first data and the keyword.

12. The method according to claim 10 wherein the first result data is based on the first data and the Boolean operation applied to the keyword.

13. A method comprising:

providing a search engine in execution on a first computer for searching within first data for result data;

receiving, by the search engine, criteria data comprising first media card data comprising a subset of data from within a capsule including digital data and for use in distribution of data from within the capsule;

searching, by the search engine, for the result data associated with the criteria data within the first data, the result data associated with at least some data within the first media card to provide search results; and

displaying the search results on a user interface, the search results relating directly to the individual.

14. A method according to claim 13 wherein criteria data comprises a Boolean operator applied to the first media card data.

15. The method according to claim 13 wherein the first data comprises a user specified data store.

16. A method comprising:

providing a search engine in execution on a first computer for searching data within a user specified data store for result data, the user specified data store comprising first media card data comprising a subset of data within a first capsule for use in distribution of data from within the first capsule to the first user, the first capsule other than publically available;

receiving, via a first media card interface, criteria data comprising second media card data comprising a subset of data within a second capsule for use in distribution of data from within the second capsule;

searching by the search engine for result data associated with the criteria data within the user specified data store, the result data associated with at least the first media card data to provide search results; and

displaying the search results on a user interface.

17. A method according to claim 16 wherein the criteria data comprises a Boolean operator applied to the first media card data.

18. The method according to claim 16 wherein the user specified data store comprises first capsule data associated with the first media card data.

19. The method according to claim 16 wherein the user specified data store comprises a data store accessed via the Internet.

20. The method according to claim 16 wherein the user specified data store comprises a computer.

21. The method according to claim 16 wherein the criteria data comprises a keyword.

22. The method according to claim 21 wherein the criteria data comprises a Boolean operation applied to the keyword.

23. The method according to claim 16 wherein the search engine comprises a desktop search engine for searching local data.

24. The method according to claim 16 wherein the search engine comprises an Internet search engine.

25. The method according to claim 16 wherein the criteria data comprises a third media card.