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Monday, 6th March 2006

>Yahoo Awarded Two Search Advertising Related Patents; Google Has Application Published; More Search IP for Microsoft Published

Search Patent Update
Yahoo Awarded Two Search Advertising Related Patents; More Search IP for Google and Microsoft Published
A quick roundup of a few new patents and patent apps.
Awarded Patents: Yahoo
Targeted advertisements using time-dependent key search
Awarded: 2/28/06
Filed: September 10, 2001
From the abstract, "An advertisement generation system presents a time-dependent advertisement to a user based upon to a search term of a search query during a period of time via a communication network The system includes a search engine coupled to a web server for receiving the search query and for presenting a search results page..."
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+ Awarded Patent: Yahoo
Canonicalization of terms in a keyword-based presentation system
Awarded: 2/28/06
Filed: 11/7/03
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+ Published Patent Application: Google?
Note: Google is not listed as the official assignee but the inventors listed work at Google.
Accelerating user interfaces by predicting user actions
"A client assistant, sometimes called a browser helper, runs on a client computer. The client assistant monitors a user's browsing activities and infers one or more next documents that are most likely to be requested by the user. The client assistant attempts to locate a fresh copy of the inferred next document within a client cache. If a fresh copy of the inferred document is not found in the client cache, the client assistant submits a document download request to a document server."
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+ Published Patent Application: Microsoft
Centralized terminology and glossary development
Published: 3/2/06
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+ Published Patent Application: Microsoft
Facility for highlighting documents accessed through search or browsing
Published 3/2/06
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+ Published Patent Application: Microsoft
Automated system for content acquisition using a web portal
Published 3/2/06
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+ Published Patent Application: Microsoft
System and method for managing information by answering a predetermined number of predefined questions
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+ Published Application: Sonic Solutions
Method and apparatus for use in video searching
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+ Published Patent App: IBM
Method of generating a context-inferenced search query and of sorting a result of the query
Published: 3/2/06
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+ Published Patent Application
Method of searching, reviewing and purchasing music track or song by lyrical content
Published 3/2/06

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