Mobile device search optimizer

• US 9,552,357 B1
• Filed: 04/17/2009
• Issued: 01/24/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Lee, Wing K., Potluri, Dora
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhen, Wei
• Assistant Examiner(s): HUDA, MOHAMMED NURUL
• Application Number:
  US12/426,089
• Time in Patent Office: 2,839 Days
• Field of Search: 707/999.006, 707/6
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9032 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/955 using information identifiers, e.g. uniform resource locators [URL]

Abstract

A system is provided for a mobile device search optimizer. The system includes a storage device, a processor, and an optimizer engine. The optimizer engine, when executed by the processor, stores user input for a mobile device to the storage device. The optimizer engine also identifies a pattern of multiple user inputs entered to select a presentation view of an application on the mobile device during multiple occasions. Additionally, the optimizer engine configures the application to offer a user input option to display the presentation view in response to a selection of the user input option.

Claims

1. A system for a mobile device search optimizer, comprising:

a storage device;

a processor; and

an optimizer engine, when executed by the processor,

to store, to the storage device, user inputs on multiple occasions of user input when the user inputs are entered into a default view of a user application executing on a mobile device, the default view of the user application having an alternative presentation view determined according to the user inputs entered into the default view,

to identify a pattern of user inputs from the stored user inputs,

to configure the presentation view of the user application executing on the mobile device in response to identifying the pattern of user inputs,

to configure the user application to offer a user input shortcut option determined according to the identified pattern of user inputs to shortcut to the presentation view of the user application from the default view of the user application, wherein when a user of the mobile device selects the user input shortcut option, the user application switches from the default view to the presentation view selected by the user, and

to communicate an email message to the mobile device, wherein the email message provides an explanation about the offered user input shortcut option.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is one of a mobile telecommunication device, a mobile handset, a personal digital assistant, a wireless mobile device, and a pager.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user input shortcut option comprises a navigation element in a document that enables navigation to one of a section of the document and another section of another document.

4. A computer implemented method for a mobile device search optimizer, comprising:

storing a plurality of user inputs from a mobile device to a storage device, wherein the plurality of user inputs is associated with a plurality of searches conducted via a plurality of search engines via the mobile device;

analyzing the stored plurality of user inputs from the mobile device based on a plurality of;

a selection of search results, a time spent displaying selected search results, a number of pages viewed that are associated with a selected search result, and a subsequent search using a same search term;

for each of the plurality of search engines, determining a plurality of search efficiencies for each category of a plurality of categories of search terms based on the analyzing;

parameterizing the analyzed stored plurality of user inputs and the plurality of search efficiencies according to the plurality of categories of search terms; and

responsive to the parameterizing, displaying the plurality of categories of search terms and the plurality of search efficiencies for the plurality of search engines associated with each of the plurality of categories of search terms via a user interface of the mobile device based on the determining to suggest a use of a search engine of the plurality of search engines by the mobile device.

5. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the user interface is associated with the mobile device, and displaying the plurality of search efficiencies enables a user of the mobile device to select one of the plurality of search engines for a search based on the plurality of search efficiencies.

6. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the user interface is associated with a mobile device service provider, and displaying the plurality of search efficiencies enables the mobile device service provider to select one of the plurality of search engines for a default search engine based on the plurality of search efficiencies.

7. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein the user interface is associated with a search engine provider, and displaying the plurality of search efficiencies enables the search engine provider to optimize a provided one of the plurality of search engines.

17. The computer implemented method of claim 4, wherein each category of search terms is uniquely associated with a search efficiency that indicates which of the plurality of search engines produced a desired result most frequently or most quickly for the category of search terms.

8. A system for a mobile device search optimizer, comprising:

a storage device;

a processor; and

an optimizer engine, when executed by the processor,

to store a plurality of search terms input via a plurality of search engines by a plurality of mobile devices to the storage device,

to identify the plurality of search terms that are input most frequently during a time period prior to an upcoming release date of at least one of a plurality of media files,

to determine that the identified plurality of search terms that are input most frequently in the time period are associated with the at least one of the plurality of media files, wherein the at least one of the plurality of media files has yet to be released to a public audience and is associated with an upcoming release date that indicates a date of a forthcoming release of the at least one of the plurality of media files to the public audience,

to determine that user input to at least one of a text message or an email is associated with the at least one of the plurality of media files, and

to configure a user interface on a mobile device associated with a media search engine providing a modified order of access of the plurality of media files to provide the at least one of the plurality of media files before a remainder of the plurality of media files, wherein the modified order of access is based on the determined plurality of search terms in the time period, a profile specific to a user of the mobile device, and the determined user input, and wherein the configured user interface provides the modified order of access to the at least one of the plurality of media files based on the upcoming release date and enables the user to access content via the media search engine using the modified order of access.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the modified order of access enables the mobile device to display selections of user input to access the plurality of media files via the mobile device in an order based on a frequency of the plurality of search terms that are input during the time period.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the modified order of access enables the user of the mobile device to provide less user input to access the plurality of media files via the media search engine than required to access the content via an unmodified order of access.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the profile specific to the user of the mobile device comprises at least one of a second user input for the mobile device, a user request made via the mobile device, demographic information associated with the user, and a location associated with the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the second user input is associated with at least one of a subscription, a purchase, content downloaded, a location associated with a request for a resource, a time associated with the request for the resource, a social circle, and a social circle communication.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the demographic information comprises at least one of an age, a gender, a customer service bill, a credit report, an income level, an education level, an occupation, and credit card information.

14. The system of claim 11, wherein the modified order of access is further based on another profile built from user input associated with another mobile device, wherein the other profile is associated with the profile based on a predetermined level of matching.

15. The system of claim 11, wherein the location of the mobile device is determined by executing a location fix technology associated with one of a cell tower, a cell sector centroid, an advanced forward link trilateration, a global positioning system, and a hybrid location fix technology.

16. The system of claim 11, wherein the location of the mobile device is based on a mailing address specified for a customer service bill.

18. The system of claim 8, wherein the at least one of the plurality of media files is a musical audio media file.