AUTOMATED CREATION AND DELIVERY OF DATABASE CONTENT

• US 20080133591A1
• Filed: 10/30/2006
• Published: 06/05/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sentius International, LLC (Sentius Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Sentius International, LLC (Sentius Corporation)
• Inventors: KURTZ, DAVID, BOOKMAN, MARC, PATWARDHAN, NIKET
• Granted Patent: US 7,672,985 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/30 of unstructured textual data document management systems G06F16/93
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9024 Graphs; Linked lists G06F16/9027 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/904 Browsing; Visualisation therefor for navigating the web G06F16/954; browsing optimisation for the web G06F16/957
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

A method and apparatus are disclosed which automatically build a database by automatically assigning links to an expert, pushing content to an expert, providing expert annotation, and linking the content to an annotation database. A term is selected by applying rules, such as, the term not previously existing in the database, an unusually high frequency of the term, the term is an article or the term is an unusual part of speech. An advertiser can sponsor the term, for example, by having a banner ad automatically pop-up on a keyword search. Content windows can be attached to the term, the content window containing information such as definitions, related products or services, sponsorship information, information from content syndicators, translations and reference works. A utility is available to the expert that allows the expert to analyze the term in context by extending or reducing the sentence or paragraph the word is contained in. Data objects that represent the contents of the database and templates are syndicated to remote servers running a processing engine. The processing engine uses these data objects to execute linking rules without requiring a connection to the database.

Claims

1-48. -48. (canceled)

49. A computer implemented method for automated creation of database content, the method comprising the steps of:

identifying at least one term within one or more documents;

assigning the at least one term to a source for identifying supplemental content for the at least one term;

building a term database with the supplemental content associated with the at least one term; and

wherein one or more data objects representing data associated with the term database are syndicated to one or more remote servers for linking the supplemental content with the at least one term.

50. The method of claim 49, wherein the source comprises at least one expert.

51. The method of claim 50, wherein the expert provides supplemental content for the at least one term through an interface.

52. The method of claim 49, further comprising the step of:

providing a sponsorship opportunity to at least one entity to sponsor the at least one term wherein a content window is associated with the at least one term.

53. The method of claim 52, wherein the content window comprises one or more of definitions, related products, related services, sponsorship information, translation, and reference works.

54. The method of claim 49, wherein the one or more remote servers access data associated with the term database for linking to the supplemental content, without a connection to the term database.

55. The method of claim 49, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a template object for identifying at least one rule for processing a source page.

56. The method of claim 49, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a lexicon object for identifying at least one term for tagging in a source page.

57. The method of claim 49, wherein the one or more data objects are synchronized with at least the term database.

58. A computer readable media comprising code to perform the acts of the method of claim 49.

59. A computer implemented system for automated creation of database content, the system comprising:

a term module for identifying at least one term within one or more documents;

a source module for assigning the at least one term to a source for identifying supplemental content for the at least one term; and

a term database comprising the supplemental content associated with the at least one term;

wherein one or more data objects representing data associated with the term database are syndicated to one or more remote servers for linking the supplemental content with the at least one term.

60. The system of claim 59, wherein the source comprises at least one expert.

61. The system of claim 60, wherein the expert provides supplemental content for the at least one term through an interface.

62. The system of claim 59, wherein a sponsorship opportunity is provided to at least one entity to sponsor the at least one term wherein a content window is associated with the at least one term.

63. The system of claim 62, wherein the content window comprises one or more of definitions, related products, related services, sponsorship information, translation, and reference works.

64. The system of claim 59, wherein the one or more remote servers access data associated with the term database for linking to the supplemental content, without a connection to the term database.

65. The system of claim 59, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a template object for identifying at least one rule for processing a source page.

66. The system of claim 59, wherein the one or more data objects comprise a lexicon object for identifying at least one term for tagging in a source page.

67. The system of claim 59, wherein the one or more data objects are synchronized with at least the term database.

68. A computer implemented system for automated creation of database content, the system comprising:

means for identifying at least one term within one or more documents;

means for assigning the at least one term to a source for identifying supplemental content for the at least one term; and

means for storing the supplemental content associated with the at least one term;

wherein one or more data objects representing data associated with the term database are syndicated to one or more remote servers for linking the supplemental content with the at least one term.