Dynamic aggregation and display of contextually relevant content

• US 8,656,264 B2
• Filed: 03/22/2011
• Issued: 02/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Media, Inc. (Verizon Communications Inc.), Yahoo Assets LLC
• Original Assignee: AOL Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Newman, Eric, Lockett, James
• Primary Examiner(s): RIES, LAURIE ANNE
• Application Number:
  US13/053,917
• Publication Number:
  US 20110173216A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,064 Days
• Field of Search: 715/206, 715/256, 715/259, 715/260, 715/205, 715/207, 715/208, 715/234, 715/271, 707/708
• US Class Current: 715/205
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/972 Access to data in other repository systems, e.g. legacy data or dynamic Web page generation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking

Abstract

A web-based system scans content for specific terms, and transforms occurrences of the terms into hypertext links. Each hypertext link provides access to a dynamically generated web page which contains aggregated content related to the respective term. The aggregated content may be gathered through a distributed keyword search of various content sources, including web sites and other sources on a wide area network. The results of the keyword search are aggregated into a single page or document, preferably with filtering to remove page elements not well suited for display on a mobile device. Occurrences of specific terms on this dynamically generated page may similarly be transformed into links, such that the user can browse content from various sources within a confined environment.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method of generating a web page, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors:

determining that a term appearing in a first web page is present in a record of a database table storing a plurality terms, wherein the record includes metadata about the term, the metadata including a plurality of words, each of the plurality of words being related to one of a plurality of possible meaning for the term;

creating a query string based on the term;

scanning the first web page for an instance of any of the plurality of words;

locating at least one of the plurality of words in the first web page;

modifying the query string based on the at least one located word; and

generating a second web page based on the modified query string, wherein generating the second web page comprises using the modified query string to execute a keyword search, and aggregating a plurality of content items located by the keyword search.

2. A computer-implemented method of determining a context of a term in a web page, the method comprising the following operations performed by one or more processors:

identifying the term in a first web page;

finding the term in an index of terms;

identifying at least one related word associated with the term in the index of terms, the related word being likely to appear with the term in a given context;

finding the related word in the first web page; and

creating a query for the term, the query including at least the term and the related word;

generating a hyperlink associated with the term in the first web page; and

providing navigation to a second web page comprising content items derived from search results using the query.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the index of terms is for a group associated with content of the first web page.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the group is related to certain topics or categories of data.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the topics or categories of data include at least one of:

news, music, sports, showbiz, or business.

6. The method of claim 2, wherein the related word is a disambiguator.

7. The method of claim 2, wherein the at least one related word includes a plurality of related words.

8. The method of claim 2, wherein the index of terms is part of a taxonomy database.

9. The method of claim 2, wherein the query comprises a string of text.

10. The method of claim 2, wherein the operations further comprise:

executing a keyword search using the query;

aggregating content items located by the keyword search; and

generating the second web page comprising the aggregated content items.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the keyword search is a text search using at least the term and the related word.

12. A system for creating a query, the system comprising:

a database storing terms and words that are related to the terms; and

a web server linked to the database, the web server comprising one or more processors configured to;

identify a term in a first web page;

find the identified term in the database;

identify at least one word related to the term in the database, the related word being likely to appear with the term in a given context;

scan the first web page to locate the related word in the first web page;

construct a query string for the term, the query string including at least the term and the related word;

generate a hyperlink associated with the term in the first web page; and

provide navigation to a second web page comprising content items derived from search results using the query.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the term is associated with certain topics or categories of data.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the topics or categories of data include at least one of:

news, music, sports, showbiz, or business.

15. The system of claim 12, wherein the related word is a disambiguator.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the database is a taxonomy database.

17. The system of claim 12, wherein the one or more processors are further configured to:

execute a keyword search using the query string;

aggregate content items found by the keyword search; and

generate the second web page comprising the aggregated content items.

18. The system of claim 12, wherein the database is a relational database.