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Wednesday, July 16, 2003
A Look at Some of Yahoo's Patents I ran a few quick and dirty searches of the USPTO Patent and Published Patent Application databases and came up with a compilation of numerous patents or patent apps that Yahoo will have if/when the merger with Overture is completed. These patent or patent apps name Yahoo, Overture, or AltaVista as the assignee. Again, this was done quickly so I'm sure other patents exist. Nevertheless, I hope this list might be a good starting point. To see the complete patent enter the patent number here or the published patent application number here. ------------ Yahoo Patents 6,581,061 Remote web site authoring system and method 6,580,786 Message store architecture 6,567,419 Intelligent voice converter 6,556,563 Intelligent voice bridging 6,553,364 Information retrieval from hierarchical compound documents 6,523,069 Transmission of multicast media between networks 6,499,052 Electronic commerce system for referencing remote commerce sites at a local commerce site 6,446,040 Intelligent text-to-speech synthesis 6,381,594 System and method for personalized information filtering and alert generation 6,359,633 Apparatus and method for abstracting markup language documents 6,343,302 Remote web site authoring system and method 6,216,157 Method and apparatus for a client-server system with heterogeneous clients 6,205,469 Method for client-server communications through a minimal interface 5,991,756 Information retrieval from hierarchical compound documents 5,983,227 Dynamic page generator Yahoo Patent Apps 20030046159 Safe advertising campaign aggregation system 20020174133 Method and apparatus for accessing targeted, personalized voice/audio web content through wireless devices 20020095435 Remote web site authoring system and method 20020091762 Information display system and methods 20020086732 Game server for use in connection with a messenger server Fast Search & Transfer 6,377,945 Search system and method for retrieval of data, and the use thereof in a search engine ***I DON'T Know if this FAST patent moves to Overture and then to Yahoo. AltaVista Patents 6,560,600 Method and apparatus for ranking Web page search results 6,513,032 Search and navigation system and method using category intersection pre-computation 6,487,555 Method and apparatus for finding mirrored hosts by analyzing connectivity and IP addresses 6,377,984 Web crawler system using parallel queues for queing data sets having common address and concurrently downloading data associated with data set in each queue 6,351,755 System and method for associating an extensible set of data with documents downloaded by a web crawler 6,301,614 System and method for efficient representation of data set addresses in a web crawler 6,286,006 Method and apparatus for finding mirrored hosts by analyzing urls 6,269,362 System and method for monitoring web pages by comparing generated abstracts 6,263,364 Web crawler system using plurality of parallel priority level queues having distinct associated download priority levels for prioritizing document downloading and maintaining document freshness 6,073,135 Connectivity server for locating linkage information between Web pages 6,349,296 Method for clustering closely resembling data objects 6,332,144 Technique for annotating media 6,321,265 System and method for enforcing politeness while scheduling downloads in a web crawler 6,321,220 Method and apparatus for preventing topic drift in queries in hyperlinked environments 6,317,741 Technique for ranking records of a database 6,311,189 Technique for matching a query to a portion of media 6,275,827 Technique for processing data 6,266,657 Technique for indexing data in a network 6,230,158 Method for indexing duplicate records of information of a database 6,230,155 Method for determining the resemining the resemblance of documents 6,219,671 Technique for storing data information within a network 6,138,113 Method for identifying near duplicate pages in a hyperlinked database 6,112,203 Method for ranking documents in a hyperlinked environment using connectivity and selective content analysis AltaVista Patent Apps 20020049753 Technique for deleting duplicate records referenced in an index of a database 20010051958 Technique for locating an item of interest within a stored representation of data Goto.Com/Overture Patents 6,269,361 System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine Monday, July 14, 2003
Recently Awarded Search-Related U.S. Patents Recently Published Patent Applications Here is another list of a few more patents and patent apps posted since the June, 2003 update. -- 1) Interactive intelligent searching with executable suggestions Awarded: June 10, 2003 Assignee: icPlanet Corporation -- 2) Techniques for identifying and accessing information of interest to a user in a network environment without compromising the user's privacy Awarded: June 17, 2003 Assignee: NA -- Recently Published Patent Applications 1) Group-based search engine system Asignee: IBM Published: July 10, 2003 -- 2) Multiple engine information retrieval and visualization system Assignee: Harris Corporation Published: July 10, 2003 -- 3) Document categorization engine Assignee: Quiver, Inc. Published: July 10, 2003 -- 4) System and method for performing a search and a browse on a query Assignee: Microsoft Published: July 3, 2003 -- 5) System and method for multiple data sources to plug into a standardized interface for distributed deep search Assignee: NA Published: July 3, 2003 -- 6) Method and system for searching and retrieving documents Assignee: NA Published: July 3, 2003 -- 7) Method for performing a search, and computer program product and user interface for same Assignee: NA Published: June 26, 2003 -- 8) Method and system for updating a search engine Assignee: NA Published: June 5, 2003 |