Smart widgets

• US 9,009,152 B2
• Filed: 02/04/2010
• Issued: 04/14/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: R2 Solutions LLC (Acacia Research Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lai, Wei-Cheng, Wu, Su-Lin
• Primary Examiner(s): BURKE, JEFF A
• Application Number:
  US12/700,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20110191316A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,895 Days
• Field of Search: 707/728, 707732-734, 707/749
• US Class Current: 707/732
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• 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 7/10 Selecting, i.e. obtaining data of one kind from those record carriers which are identifiable by data of a second kind from a mass of ordered or randomly- distributed record carriers

Abstract

According to some example embodiments, a method includes based, at least in part, on one or more signals representative of user-defined content, assessing the user-defined content and storing one or more signals representative of a result of the assessment of the user-defined content. The method further includes selecting one or more widgets for presentation in combination with other content associated with the user-defined content, the selecting being based at least in part on the assessment of the user-defined content.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

assessing, at least partially in response to receiving one or more signals representative of user-defined content, by one or more processors, said user-defined content and storing one or more signals representative of a result of said assessment of said user-defined content, said assessing to determine a user intent of a search query, wherein said user-defined content comprises at least said search query and one or more text messages received by a user or transmitted by the user;

selecting, at least partially in response to receiving said one or more signals comprising at least said search query, one or more widgets for presentation to a user, in combination with other content associated with said user-defined content, said selecting being based at least in part on said assessment of said user-defined content, wherein individual ones of said one or more widgets comprise an item of a graphical user interface to provide a user with an interaction point capable of receiving a user input relating to a particular topic and presenting an output relating to said user input; and

tailoring said one or more widgets to specify one or more selections, worksheets, or calculators to be displayed by said one or more widgets based, at least in part, on said user-defined content and in response to said selecting of said one or more widgets.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein one or more items of said user-defined content comprises a second search query submitted by a user to a search engine, said selecting being based at least in part on said assessment of said search query.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said user-defined content comprises a web page presented to a user in response to an action performed by said user.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said user-defined content comprises content comprising an email message or a text message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein selecting said one or more widgets comprises ordering said one or more widgets based at least upon a content relevancy, where the content relevancy of a widget comprises how closely a widget matches a deduced intent of a user'"'"'s query.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein selecting said one or more widgets additionally comprises ordering said one or more widgets based at least upon a revenue potential of said one or more widgets.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein selecting said one or more widgets additionally comprises ordering said one or more widgets based at least upon a preference of said user.

8. A system comprising a special purpose computing platform, the special purpose computing platform comprising:

a memory; and

a processor in communication with the memory, the processor being programmed with instructions executable by said processor to;

assess user-defined content to determine a user intent of a search query, wherein said user-defined content comprises at least said search query and one or more text messages received by a user or transmitted by the user;

select, at least partially in response to receiving said one or more signals comprising at least said search query, one or more widgets for presentation to a user, in combination with other content associated with said user-defined content, based at least in part on the assessment of said user-defined content, wherein individual ones of said one or more widgets comprise an item of a graphical user interface to provide a user with an interaction point capable of receiving a user input relating to a particular topic and presenting an output relating to said user input; and

tailor said one or more widgets to specify one or more selections, worksheets, or calculators to be displayed by said one or more widgets based, at least in part, on said user-defined content and in response to said selecting of said one or more widgets.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor is further programmed with instructions to collect historical data associated with a user.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the processor is further programmed with instructions to tailor said one or more widgets relative to said user based at least in part upon said historical data.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein said historical data comprises a language preference of said user.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein said historical data further comprises a recent activity log of said user.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein said historical data further comprises a saved search log of said user.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein said historical data further comprises a user profile of said user.

15. An article comprising:

a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions that are executable by a special purpose computing platform to;

assess user-defined content to determine a user intent of a search query, wherein said user-defined content comprises at least said search query and one or more text messages received by a user or transmitted by the user;

select, at least partially in response to receiving said search query, one or more widgets for presentation to a user, in combination with other content associated with said user-defined content, the selecting based at least in part on the assessment of said user-defined content, wherein individual ones of said one or more widgets comprise an item of a graphical user interface to provide a user with an interaction point capable of receiving a user input relating to a particular topic and presenting an output relating to said user input; and

tailor said one or more widgets to specify one or more selections, worksheets, or calculators to be displayed by said one or more widgets based, at least in part, on said user-defined content and in response to said selecting of said one or more widgets.

16. The article of claim 15, wherein said instructions are further executable by said special purpose computing platform to tag a search query submitted by a user with one or more query semantic labels, said selection of said one or more widgets is further based at least in part on said one more query semantic labels.

17. The article of claim 15, wherein said instructions are further executable by said special purpose computing platform to extract subject data from a web page viewed by said user and apply to said subject data one or more auxiliary semantic labels, said selection of said one or more widgets being further based at least in part on said one or more auxiliary semantic labels.

18. The article of claim 15, wherein said instructions are further executable by said special purpose computing platform to authenticate said user with a third-party server that is capable of using authentication information for access to privileged data.

19. The article of claim 15, wherein said selection of said one or more widgets comprises selecting said one or more widgets from a library of pre-defined widgets, wherein the said one or more widgets are selected responsive to a set of pre-defined conditions being met.

20. The article of claim 19, wherein said library of pre-defined widgets comprise one or more of:

a utility widget;

a shopping widget;

a local widget;

a finance widget;

an entertainment widget;

a social widget;

or an online game widget.