Search system using source and target image categorization
First Claim
1. An online search system that services both a plurality of web hosting servers and a plurality of user computing devices via an Internet, the online search system comprising:
- a processing infrastructure of a server computer that interacts with each of the plurality of web hosting servers via the Internet in a web crawl process to gather a plurality of images, the processing infrastructure associates, during the web crawl process, each of the plurality of images with at least one of a plurality of image groups, a first group of the plurality of image groups being associated with a plurality of first images of the plurality of images, each of the plurality of image groups being associated with at least one image characteristic;
a communication interface through which an uploaded search image is received by the processing infrastructure; and
the processing infrastructure, based on a first group selection from the plurality of image groups, performs a search associated with the first group selection to generate search results that identify only a portion of the plurality of first images.
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Abstract
An Internet infrastructure supports searching of images by correlating a category selection with that of plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers in selected categories. An image search server supports delivery of search result pages to a client device based upon a search image or category selection, and contains images from a plurality of Internet based web hosting servers. The image search server delivers characteristic analysis of an image to the client device upon request. The selection of images is based upon: (i) word match, that is, by selecting images, titles of which correspond to the search image; and (ii) image correlation, that is, by selecting images, image characteristics of which correlates to that of category selection. The selection of images in the search result page also occurs on the basis of popularity. The category selection server also selects category based upon user'"'"'s choice.
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8 Claims
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1. An online search system that services both a plurality of web hosting servers and a plurality of user computing devices via an Internet, the online search system comprising:
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a processing infrastructure of a server computer that interacts with each of the plurality of web hosting servers via the Internet in a web crawl process to gather a plurality of images, the processing infrastructure associates, during the web crawl process, each of the plurality of images with at least one of a plurality of image groups, a first group of the plurality of image groups being associated with a plurality of first images of the plurality of images, each of the plurality of image groups being associated with at least one image characteristic; a communication interface through which an uploaded search image is received by the processing infrastructure; and the processing infrastructure, based on a first group selection from the plurality of image groups, performs a search associated with the first group selection to generate search results that identify only a portion of the plurality of first images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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