Method and system for updating a search engine

Details Method and system for updating a search engine Method and system for updating a search engine

2011-07-12

2011-07-12

Hicks, Michael (Department: 2165)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database and file access

Post processing of search results

Reexamination Certificate

active

07979427

ABSTRACT:
A method and a system for maintaining the freshness of a search engine server's database. A popularity parameter is defined, and a popularity value is assigned to each link in the search engine's database. The most popular links are selected for updating the contents stored, or associated with, the site to which the links refer. In one embodiment, popularity is based at least in part on the search results generated by the search engine in response to user queries.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5855020 (1998-12-01), Kirsch
patent: 5960429 (1999-09-01), Peercy et al.
patent: 6085226 (2000-07-01), Horvitz
patent: 6112240 (2000-08-01), Pogue et al.
patent: 6263364 (2001-07-01), Najork et al.
patent: 6278992 (2001-08-01), Curtis et al.
patent: 6401118 (2002-06-01), Thomas
patent: 6421675 (2002-07-01), Ryan et al.
patent: 6426761 (2002-07-01), Kanevsky et al.
patent: 6457028 (2002-09-01), Pitkow et al.
patent: 6466970 (2002-10-01), Lee et al.
patent: 6480837 (2002-11-01), Dutta
patent: 6490577 (2002-12-01), Anwar
patent: 6505232 (2003-01-01), Mighdoll et al.
patent: 6546388 (2003-04-01), Edlund et al.
patent: 6571239 (2003-05-01), Cole et al.
patent: 6631372 (2003-10-01), Graham
patent: 6638314 (2003-10-01), Meyerzon et al.
patent: 6654813 (2003-11-01), Black et al.
patent: 6671711 (2003-12-01), Pirolli et al.
patent: 6754873 (2004-06-01), Law et al.
patent: 6763362 (2004-07-01), McKeeth
patent: 6789076 (2004-09-01), Dutta
patent: 6832218 (2004-12-01), Emens et al.
patent: 6856967 (2005-02-01), Woolston et al.
patent: 6873982 (2005-03-01), Bates et al.
patent: 6901553 (2005-05-01), Hayashi et al.
patent: 6944609 (2005-09-01), Witbrock
patent: 6963867 (2005-11-01), Ford et al.
patent: 7076483 (2006-07-01), Preda et al.
patent: 7398271 (2008-07-01), Borkovsky et al.
patent: 2001/0044791 (2001-11-01), Richter et al.
patent: 2002/0021665 (2002-02-01), Bhagavath et al.
patent: 2002/0059221 (2002-05-01), Whitehead et al.
patent: 2002/0062223 (2002-05-01), Waugh
patent: 2002/0062323 (2002-05-01), Takatori et al.
patent: 2002/0099602 (2002-07-01), Moskowitz et al.
patent: 2002/0111847 (2002-08-01), Smith
patent: 2002/0123988 (2002-09-01), Dean et al.
patent: 2002/0143759 (2002-10-01), Yu
patent: 2002/0156917 (2002-10-01), Nye
patent: 2003/0046311 (2003-03-01), Baidya et al.
patent: 2003/0050927 (2003-03-01), Hussam
patent: 2003/0172075 (2003-09-01), Reisman
patent: 2004/0117654 (2004-06-01), Feldman et al.
patent: 2006/0004594 (2006-01-01), Doliov
patent: 2006/0253434 (2006-11-01), Beriker et al.
Collaboratively Searching the Web—An Initial Study. By Agustin Schapira. Pub. 1999.
Digging for Gold on the Web: Experience with the WebGather. Jiangou Liu, Ming Lei et al. IEEE 2000.
Distribution of surfers' paths through the World Wide Web: Empirical characterizations. WWW 1999. Peter L. T. Pirolli and James E. Pitkow.
Dynamic Management of URL Based on Object-Oriented Paradigm. By Gun-Woo Nam et al. Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
E.G. Coffman, Jr. et al. Optimal Robot Scheduling for Web Search Engines. Journal of scheduling. Pub. 1997.
Fangyan Du. A Web Meta-Search Engine Using a Ranking Algorithm Based on a Markov Model. Master Thesis. May 12, 2001.
J. Cho & Garcia-Molina, The Evolution of the Web and Implications for an Incremental Crawler, Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth International Conference. Sep. 2000.
Jenny Edwards et al., An Adaptive Model for Optimizing Performance of an Incremental Web Crawler, WWW10, May 1-5, 2001.
Jiangou Liu et al., Digging for Gold on the Web: experience with the WebGather, IEEE 2000.
Junghoo Cho and Hector Garcia-Molina, Synchronizing a database to Improve Freshness, ACM Jun. 2000.
SearchPad: explicit capture of search context to support Web search. Krishna Bharat. Computer Networks. Publication 2000.
Vijay Gupta and Roy Campbell, Internet Search Engine Freshness by Web Server Help. Symposium meeting dates Jan. 8, 2001-Jan. 12, 2001. IEEE 2001.
Vol. 16 No. 5. Sep. 2001. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. Improved Relevance Ranking in WebGather. Lei Ming et al. pp. 410-417.
World Wide Web Navigation Aid. Miena Head et al. Journal Article Published 2000.
Zahir Tari et al. A CORBA Cooperative Cache Approach with Popularity Admission and Routing Mechanism. Australian Computer Society. Copyright 2001.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

Rating

Method and system for updating a search engine does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this patent.

If you have personal experience with Method and system for updating a search engine, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Method and system for updating a search engine will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFUS-PAI-O-2729425