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US 8037041
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Patent Overview — US 8,037,041 B2
Title: System for dynamic keyword aggregation, search query generation and submission to third-party information search utilities
Patent number / application: US 8,037,041 B2; Application US 11/400,002
Inventor: Puneet K. Gupta
Assignee: The source lists Alden Byird Investments LLC as original assignee and E2e Systems LLC as current assignee; inventor Puneet K. Gupta and Soundstarts, Inc. are recorded as assignors to Alden Byird Investments, LLC.
Key dates: Priority 2005-04-11; filed 2006-04-07; published as US 2006/0230015 A1 on 2006-10-12; granted 2011-10-11.
Purpose: The patent addresses a problem with existing information searching: it is often ad hoc and performed manually, and users may lack skill in choosing keywords and phrases that return relevant results. Poorly chosen terms can return many irrelevant links, forcing users to sift through data and repeatedly refine and resubmit searches, which can be frustrating, especially for untrained users.
Plain-language scope: The disclosed system extracts keywords and phrases from a text source for submission to a search facility. It includes a text source accessible by the system, a keyword aggregation function, and a mechanism for configuring the system; extraction occurs according to that configuration. Configuration can control the nature of selected words (e.g., nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs), selection of repeated words or phrases, prioritization based on date or time constraints (e.g., a course schedule), and extraction by document portion (sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters). The text source may be a real-time typing mechanism, with extraction managed by word, sentence, paragraph, page, or time periodicity. Submissions may be managed by time periods or structural characteristics such as sentences, paragraphs, pages, chapters, or subheadings, may occur in real time over the Internet, or may occur when a system reconnects after offline extraction. Search results may be displayed proximate typed text and may include links to Internet-connected sources. A corresponding method is also described.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8037041/en
Not established by the excerpt: The full claim set and its exact claim language; the complete specification and drawings; the detailed operation of the aggregation and submission mechanisms; the number or specific content of the figures; and the full text of the background and detailed-description sections. No litigation, ownership-transfer, validity, or prior-art matters are addressed here, consistent with the source excerpt.
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