Display of dynamic interference graph results

• US 9,864,805 B2
• Filed: 04/30/2013
• Issued: 01/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Annau, Thomas M., Lindahl, Gregory B., Makonnen, Samuel, Markson, Michael, Peters, Keith, Saliba, Robert Michael, Sary, Al, Skrenta, Rich, Swartz, Dan, Truel, Robert N., Walters, Timothy
• Primary Examiner(s): Rostami, Mohammad S
• Assistant Examiner(s): LIN, ALLEN S
• Application Number:
  US13/873,393
• Publication Number:
  US 20130246404A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,715 Days
• Field of Search: 707723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24534 Query rewriting; Transformation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2455 Query execution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24568 Data stream processing; Continuous queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3338 Query expansion
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90328 using search space presentation or visualization, e.g. category or range presentation and selection
• 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 16/9536 Search customisation based on social or collaborative filtering
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least a search operator in a search query, the search operator being associated with a category of content from a social network site. Also, a web server configured to, in response to detecting the search query, generate a first search result based on at least the category of content associated with the search operator, and display the first search result in a web browser.

Claims

1. A search engine system in communication with a network, the search engine system configured to:

receive a search query from a user via the network including at least one key word and at least one search operator filter, where the at least one search operator filter includes both a “

/likes”

slashtag and a “

/checkin”

slashtag, where;

polling data associated with the “

/likes”

slashtag includes “

like”

preferences indicated by a plurality of additional users identified as friends of a first user within a first social network site, such that websites identified by the polling data from the first social network site include websites to which one of the “

like”

preferences is assigned, and

polling data associated with the “

/checkin”

slashtag includes user checkins at a business or venue indicated by a plurality of additional users identified as friends of the first user within a second social network site, such that websites identified by the polling data from the second social network site include websites associated with the business or venue to which one of the user checkins is assigned;

detect the at least one search operator filter in the search query, and identify the at least one search operator filter as being associated with the polling data associated with the “

/likes”

slashtag and the polling data associated with the “

/checkin”

slashtag;

generate a plurality of search results, utilizing the search query, where only the websites identified by the polling data from the first social network site and the polling data from the second social network site are considered when generating the plurality of search results; and

display the plurality of search results in a web browser, including displaying, for each of the plurality of search results, a list of users who provided the polling data associated with the search result.

2. The search engine system of claim 1, wherein the search engine system is further configured to rank the plurality of search results.

3. The search engine system of claim 1, wherein the search engine system is further configured to use a URL of the second social network site to extrapolate one or more of the websites associated with the business or venue to which one of the user checkins is assigned.

4. A method for generating a plurality of search results to be displayed in a web browser, comprising,

via a search engine system in communication with a network:

receiving a search query from a user via the network including at least one key word and at least one search operator filter, where the at least one search operator filter includes both a “

/likes”

slashtag and a “

/checkin”

slashtag, where;

polling data associated with the “

/likes”

slashtag includes “

like”

preferences indicated by a plurality of additional users identified as friends of a first user within a first social network site, such that websites identified by the polling data from the first social network site include websites to which one of the “

like”

preferences is assigned, and

polling data associated with the “

/checkin”

slashtag includes user checkins at a business or venue indicated by a plurality of additional users identified as friends of the first user within a second social network site, such that websites identified by the polling data from the second social network site include websites associated with the business or venue to which one of the user checkins is assigned;

detecting the at least one search operator filter in the search query and identifying the at least one search operator filter as being associated with the polling data associated with the “

/likes”

slashtag and the polling data associated with the “

/checkin”

slashtag;

generating a plurality of search results, utilizing the search query, where only the websites identified by the polling data from the first social network site and the polling data from the second social network site are considered when generating the plurality of search results; and

displaying the plurality of search results in the web browser, including displaying, for each of the plurality of search results, a list of users who provided the polling data associated with the search result.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising ranking the plurality of search results.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising using a URL of the second social network site to extrapolate one or more of the websites associated with the business or venue to which one of the user checkins is assigned.