Semantic information processing

• US 9,230,019 B2
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Virtuanet, LLC
• Original Assignee: Virtuanet, LLC
• Inventors: Koonce, Michael Sean, Ahmed, Soeb
• Primary Examiner(s): BUI, JONATHAN A
• Application Number:
  US13/331,506
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166583A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,477 Days
• Field of Search: 709/204, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34

Abstract

A system for exchanging various forms of information between computer-executable agents. A computing device is configured to determine semantic data associated with each data object (DO) of a plurality of DOs. Each DO is associated with a location, and the semantic data describes the content of the associated DO. The computing device receives, from a first user computing device, a request for DO information and, in response to the request, provides DO information including the locations and the semantic data associated with the retrieved DOs to the user computing device by (a) transmitting the locations and the semantic data to the first user computing device, and/or (b) instructing the first user computing device to request the DO information from a second user computing device to which the locations and the semantic data were previously transmitted.

Claims

1. A system comprising a master computing device comprising a processor communicatively coupled to a memory device, said master computing device configured to:

retrieve a plurality of data objects (DOs) from one or more remote user computing devices, wherein each DO is associated with a network location from which the DO is accessible;

determine semantic data associated with each DO of the plurality of DOs, wherein the semantic data describes content of the associated DO;

receive, from a first user computing device of a plurality of user computing devices, a request for DO information;

in response to the request, provide the requested DO information including the locations and the semantic data associated with the retrieved DOs to the first user computing device by one or more of the following;

(a) transmitting the locations and the semantic data to the first user computing device, and

(b) instructing the first user computing device to request the DO information from a second user computing device to which the locations and the semantic data were transmitted before receiving the request from the first user computing device;

maintain a relay count associated with each of the plurality of user computing devices, wherein the relay count indicates a quantity of times the associated user computing device has transmitted DO information to another user computing device;

identify a set of non-contributing user computing devices associated with a relay count indicating the associated user computing device has not transmitted DO information when requested to transmit DO information; and

disregard requests for DO information from the non-contributing user computing devices.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the master computing device is further configured to:

record a transmission of the locations and the semantic data associated with the DOs to the second user computing device; and

select the second user computing device based on the recorded transmission.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the second user computing device is associated with a relay count, and the master computing device is further configured to:

select the second user computing device based further on the relay count of the second user computing device being less than a predetermined relay quota; and

increase the relay count associated with the second user computing device based on receiving a notification from the first user computing device that the second user computing device has transmitted the locations and the semantic information of the plurality of DOs to the first user computing device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the master computing device is further configured to:

calculate an expected hash value associated with the DO information; and

transmit a warning associated with the second user computing device when the second user computing device transmits DO information that does not validate against the expected hash value.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the master computing device is configured to transmit the requested DO information by transmitting locations and semantic data associated with a plurality of advertisements.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the master computing device is configured to determine the semantic data associated with each DO of the retrieved DOs by extracting the semantic data from the DO.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the master computing device is configured to determine the semantic data associated with each DO of the retrieved DOs by receiving the semantic data from another computing device.