Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20100241647
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Steven Weiner (over 2 years ago)
Regarding Claim 00001 not sure yet what nuances there may be in the claim wording. However, if the claim is to the broad idea of using contextual information and previous searches of a particular user to better process a current query, then I believe that was well-known in the search community at least several years earlier. For example, from a 2000 ACM Communications article by Udi Manber and Yahoo! colleagues:
http://maya.cs.depaul.edu/~classes/cs589/papers/manber.pdf:
For example, if one searches for the name of a current movie, we point to Yahoo! movies, show an image from the movie, the cast, and a pointer to a page with current showtimes. If the user looked at the showtimes page previously and entered a zip code, that page is
automatically customized to show the movie theaters near the user. With one click after searching for a movie name, one can see the showtimes in one’s area. In a similar fashion, if the search is for “chinese food” (search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=chinese+food), we
link to the Yahoo! Yellow Pages, and show the user a list of Chinese restaurants nearby. Of course, one can change the location at any time.Rocky Kahn (over 2 years ago)
Regarding Claim 00001, eBay has long provided a "saved search" mechanism allowing a user to be notified of new matches for previous searches. Here, the "computing environment" is eBay, "context information" are a user's saved searches, "receiving a current action" is receiving a new auction or change to an existing auction, "accessing data obtained from a query log to determine whether at least some of the context information is relevant to the current action" is comparing the new/changed auction to saved searches to determine if there's a match. This appears to claim the method of a search agent which is well-known for a long time.PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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