Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2005-09-27
2005-09-27
Choules, Jack M. (Department: 2167)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C709S217000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06950821
ABSTRACT:
Systems and methods for resolving search queries to information providers in a distributing search network. In a network including nodes generating search requests and nodes providing information, a node may operate as hub to route search requests from requesting nodes to provider nodes. Providers may register with a network hub. Registration information may include address information and data indicating the queries or type of queries for which that provider may have relevant data. A hub may resolve search queries against provider registrations to determine a set of providers to which to route each search query. Several systems and methods of selecting some of the providers are described, including the use of bidding, ranking, and statistical data.
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Beatty John
Botros Sherif
Camarda Thomas J.
Cutting Douglass R.
Faybishenko Yaroslav
Choules Jack M.
Kowert Robert C.
Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel P.C.
Sun Microsystems Inc.
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