SEARCH SYSTEM USING SOURCE & TARGET IMAGE CATEGORIZATION
First Claim
1. An online search system that services both a plurality of web hosting servers and a plurality of user computing devices via an Internet, the online search system comprising:
- a processing infrastructure that interacts with each of the plurality of web hosting servers in a crawl related process to gather a plurality of images, the first processing infrastructure associates each of the plurality of images with at least one of a plurality of image groups, a first group of the plurality of image groups being associated with a plurality of first images of the plurality of images, each of the plurality of image groups being associated with at least one image characteristic;
a communication interface through which an uploaded search image is received by the processing infrastructure; and
the processing infrastructure, based on a first group selection from the plurality of image groups, performs a search associated with the first group to generate search results that identify only a portion of the plurality of first images.
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Abstract
An Internet infrastructure supports searching of images by correlating a category selection with that of plurality of images hosted in Internet based servers in selected categories. An image search server supports delivery of search result pages to a client device based upon a search image or category selection, and contains images from a plurality of Internet based web hosting servers. The image search server delivers characteristic analysis of an image to the client device upon request. The selection of images is based upon: (i) word match, that is, by selecting images, titles of which correspond to the search image; and (ii) image correlation, that is, by selecting images, image characteristics of which correlates to that of category selection. The selection of images in the search result page also occurs on the basis of popularity. The category selection server also selects category based upon user'"'"'s choice.
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20 Claims
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1. An online search system that services both a plurality of web hosting servers and a plurality of user computing devices via an Internet, the online search system comprising:
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a processing infrastructure that interacts with each of the plurality of web hosting servers in a crawl related process to gather a plurality of images, the first processing infrastructure associates each of the plurality of images with at least one of a plurality of image groups, a first group of the plurality of image groups being associated with a plurality of first images of the plurality of images, each of the plurality of image groups being associated with at least one image characteristic; a communication interface through which an uploaded search image is received by the processing infrastructure; and the processing infrastructure, based on a first group selection from the plurality of image groups, performs a search associated with the first group to generate search results that identify only a portion of the plurality of first images. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An online search system that gathers a plurality of images from a plurality of web hosting servers in a crawl related process, the online search system comprising:
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a processing infrastructure that associates each image of the plurality of images with at least one of a plurality of image categorization groups; a communication interface through which the processing infrastructure supports a visual presentation on a user device, the visual presentation supporting a first user selection of at least one of the plurality of image categorization groups; and the processing infrastructure responds to an uploaded user image by searching less than all of the plurality of image categorization groups to identify results images. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method performed by an online search system that gathers a plurality of images from a plurality of web hosting servers in a crawl related process, the method comprising:
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associating each image of the plurality of images with at least one of a plurality of image categorization groups; communicating to support a visual presentation on a user device, the visual presentation offering a first user selection of at least one of the plurality of image categorization groups; and responding to an uploaded user image by limiting an image search to a first group of the plurality of image categorization groups. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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Specification