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Teleshuttle Search patent news
- 7/6/09
- Reisman
search patent portfolio is sold
- 12/2/08
- Fourth Reisman
search-related patent issues
- 6/13/06
- Two Reisman search-related patents issue
- 10/11/05 - US Patent Office issues the first patent in
Richard Reisman's search-related patent portfolio
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Teleshuttle developed and sold a portfolio of patents that relate to Internet Search,
with aspects relating to the Social Web and the Semantic Web.
The Sale:
These patents and
patent applications were sold
on 7/6/09 to RPX
Corporation,
the first defensive patent aggregator. As
of 6/1/10, all of these patents sold to RPX have been licensed to over 49
companies, including many household names.
The Portfolio: Four patents have been issued, and additional
applications are pending. Teleshuttle believes these patents (which have priority dates
back to 2000) may have broad applicability to improving a very wide range of Internet
searching and other tasks. Examples of some of the subject matter these patents relate to
are as follows.
- The US Patent No. 6,954,755 (issued 10/11/05,
filing priority 8/30/00)
Task/domain
segmentation in applying feedback to command control
in relation to Search and the Semantic Web.
This relates to a wide range of searches and to use
of "Semantic Web" information (XML vocabularies, schemas, or DTDs) to enhance
relevance. As one example:
- Queries can be made as usual, with no need to be expressed in
terms of specifically defined semantic elements, such as those declared in XML.
- An association can be made indirectly by a search engine,
based on information available to it that may relate an ordinary search query to a
corresponding task or subject domain.
- The search engine can apply knowledge that certain
vocabularies, schemas or DTDs may tend to be associated with that task/domain, in order to
preferentially rank possible search results that have a declared association with one of
those associated vocabularies, schemas, or DTDs.
- For example, searches relating to a shopping task might favor
results that involve XML formats for product offers and/or formats for product reviews,
without any need to formulate a query to use such XML.
As use of Semantic Web XML information becomes common on the
Web, Teleshuttle believes such methods can be used to significantly enhance Internet
search results for a very wide range of queries that can be entered by users
without any special action or knowledge of semantic specifications.
- The U. S. patent No.
7,062,488 (issued 6/13/06,
filing
priority 8/30/00)
Task/domain
segmentation in applying feedback to command control
in relation to Search and the Social Web
This relates to uses of social feedback that
indicate which search results were found to be popular with other searchers who had
submitted the same or similar queries and the partitioning of such feedback into
task/domains in order to achieve improved relevance.
Feedback can be used to rank the most popular results, which are recognized by users as
presumably the most useful. Unlike any prior uses of feedback, Teleshuttle believes
partitioning feedback by task/domain can give more selectivity to the ranking of search
results by popularity for example to differentiate among responses having high
relevance to Apple computers, as opposed to apple fruit or Apple records.
- The U. S. patent No.
7,062,561 (issued 6/13/06,
filing
priority 5/23/00)
Method and apparatus for utilizing the social usage learned from
multi-user feedback to improve resource identity signifier mapping
… in relation to Search and the
“Social Web”
This relates to finding a particular, intended resource, such as a Web site
or Web page (or other object), as opposed to searching to discover any of a number of
relevant pages that may pertain to a query topic. This enables
navigation by name. Teleshuttle believes this enables a major
class of search applications, a need that is
dimly recognized and poorly served.
For example, a searcher might want to enter apple to signify the home page for
Apple computers, or ipod to signify the iPod page, as opposed to a search for
any "relevant" pages that may be about Apple, the company or apples, the fruit,
or about iPods. These signifiers of known target pages may be addressed as mappings of
names, rather than general searches of information discovery. Teleshuttle believes
that using feedback that is specific to such signifier mappings boosts the likelihood of
correct mappings. Such mappings can be thought of as learning a social usage
of the signifiers, and work much like a special form of tagging (a Social Web
facility that has become very popular).
- The U. S. patent No.
7,461,155 (issued 12/2/08,
filing
priority 5/23/00)
Method and apparatus for utilizing the social usage learned from
multi-user feedback to improve resource identity signifier mapping
… in relation to Search and the
“Social Web”
This, like
7,062,561, relates to
finding a particular, intended resource by name.
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NOTE:
All descriptions relating to patents above (and elsewhere in Teleshuttle
publications) are meant only to provide a suggestion of some of the subject matter they
relate to. They are not to be taken as claim interpretations, or as precise or complete
characterizations, and other aspects of those patents or applications may be of equal or
greater importance,
nor are they to be taken as indications of possible infringement.
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