Searching restricted content on a network

• US 9,384,280 B2
• Filed: 01/23/2014
• Issued: 07/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bampton Technologies, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Bampton Technologies, LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Cox, Richard Vandervoort, Eslambolchi, Hossein, Nadji, Behzad, Rahim, Mazin G.
• Primary Examiner(s): Jami, Hares
• Application Number:
  US14/161,820
• Publication Number:
  US 20140136507A1
• Time in Patent Office: 894 Days
• Field of Search: 707/705, 707/706, 707/708, 707/735, 707/758, 707/999.1, 707/999.3, 704/1, 704/9
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3331 Query processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3334 Selection or weighting of terms from queries, including natural language queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3344 using natural language analysis
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 15/22 Procedures used during a speech recognition process, e.g. man-machine dialogue
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/06 Transformation of speech into a non-audible representation, e.g. speech visualisation or speech processing for tactile aids G10L15/26 takes precedence

Abstract

A transceiver of a computing device may receive data from a query to provide to a search engine to perform a search. The computing device may negotiate, automatically to overcome a restriction to access a page of a set of top webpages in association with the search, a fee. A processor of the computing device may continue to search information associated with the query on the page using a machine learning function.

Claims

1. A method performed by a computing device, the method comprising:

receiving, by a transceiver of the computing device, data from a query to provide to a search engine to perform a search;

negotiating, without user interference, to overcome a restriction to access a page of a set of top webpages in association with the search, a fee;

sending, by the computing device to a client device, audible response data related to the set of top webpages; and

continuing, by a processor without user input, to search information associated with the query on the page using a machine learning function.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the search is text-based.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the query is a natural language speech query.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the data comprises any one of keywords and key phrases.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is provided to a plurality of search engines.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the audible response data is a natural language response provided via synthetic speech.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the query and the audible response data are provided via a dialog mode.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the client device interacts with a virtual agent in the dialog mode.

9. A computing device comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive data from a query to provide to a search engine to perform a search;

a processor configured to negotiate, without user interference, to overcome a restriction to access a page of a set of top webpages in association with the search, a fee;

the processor further configured to send, to a client device, audible response data related to the set of top webpages; and

the processor further configured to continue, without user input, to search information associated with the query on the page by utilization of a machine learning function.

10. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the search is text-based.

11. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the query is a natural language speech query.

12. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the data comprises any one of keywords and key phrases.

13. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the data is provided to a plurality of search engines.

14. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the audible response data is a natural language response provided via synthetic speech.

15. The computing device of claim 9, wherein the query and the audible response data are provided via a dialog mode.

16. The computing device of claim 15, wherein the client device interacts with a virtual agent in the dialog mode.