METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CREATION OF USER/GUIDE PROFILE IN A HUMAN-AIDED SEARCH SYSTEM

• US 20090100032A1
• Filed: 10/13/2008
• Published: 04/16/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ChaCha Search, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ChaCha Search, Inc.
• Inventors: Cooper, Thomas E., Jones, Scott A.
• Application Number:
  US12/250,267
• Publication Number:
  US 20090100032A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0224 based on user history

Abstract

A process and system of defining a user and/or guide profile is disclosed. Information of a user or guide profile may be obtained by designating information to be processed by a search system. Profile data may be obtained from a number of activities which produce information regarding a person who participated in the activities. A process and system is provided for creating profiles which may be used to identify persons who have information related to the profile. A searcher, user or other profile may be created, modified and managed using the process and system.

Claims

1. A method of creating a profile, comprising:

capturing a characteristic of a person by parsing content identified with the person; and

generating a profile for the person based on said capturing and selecting data to be associated with a search based on the profile.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said data is one of an advertisement, or a response to a query triggering the search.

3. A method of creating a profile of a person, comprising:

identifying a person;

obtaining information associated with the person;

processing the information to determine a characteristic of the person;

determining a rating of the person associated with the characteristic; and

associating the characteristic and the rating with an identifier of the person.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the information is a query and an answer associated with the person and a human searcher.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the person is a human searcher.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the information is one or more of a document, a blog, a message, an email, a webpage, or a database selected by the person.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein the information is obtained by one or more of testing, game playing, training, or polling.

8. A method of creating a profile associated with a person, comprising;

identifying a person;

obtaining information of the person from a registration process which requires the person to provide a standard set of information;

obtaining information of the person by indexing documents identified by the person;

obtaining information of the person by testing;

obtaining information of the person from an external database;

obtaining information of the person from a query and an answer history associated with the person and a human searcher;

processing each information obtained to determine a characteristic associated with the person; and

providing a selective access to the characteristics.

9. A method of creating a profile, comprising:

obtaining information of a person and creating a profile for the person using the information obtained; and

modifying content of the profile based on interaction with the person.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the information is obtained independent of an interaction with the person.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the information is obtained from an existing profile.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the person is a guide who has registered to conduct a search responsive to a query submitted by an information seeker.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein said obtaining includes one or more of extracting a keyword from a document, analyzing a web page, reviewing a tag, metadata and/or content of an image, audio, video and/or mixed media, and analyzing content of information associated with a search.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein said interaction is one of a survey, a game, a test, a puzzle, an interactive training, or a search session.

15. The method of claim 9, comprising:

determining whether any of guides registered to conduct searches have a profile matching the profile created; and

presenting an activity for each guide determined to have a matching profile based on said determining.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein a result of the activity is utilized in selecting data to be associated with the profile created.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the data is one or more of a search result, a category, a keyword and an advertisement.

18. A computer readable medium having embodied therein a program for causing a computer to execute an operation for creating a profile, comprising:

capturing a characteristic of a person by parsing content identified with the person; and

generating a profile based on said capturing and selecting data to be associated with a search based on the profile of the person.

19. A method of creating a profile, comprising:

generating a profile of a first user including based on information captured while the user is engaged in an activity independent of a search; and

associating a query of the first user with a second user based on the profile generated.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the first user is an information seeker and the second user is a human searcher registered to conduct a search.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein said information is captured without requiring interactive submission of the information by the user.

22. A system of creating a profile, comprising:

a device obtaining a characteristic of a person by parsing content identified with the person; and

a database storing a profile generated based on said capturing and selecting data to be associated with a search based on the profile of the person.