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Wednesday, 20th June 2007

Xerox: The Enterprise Search Company?; Review of Selected Xerox Search Patents

Yes, it's true according to an article from Forbes.com that Xerox is wanting to get into the enterprise search game. Forbes calls them an "unlikely" player but ResourceShelf isn't so sure. Over the past few years, while most of us have been focusing on other companies, Xerox has been doing lots of work in the search and IR space. Since we do our best to track search-related patents, we've seen enough Xerox patents and patent apps that clearly illustrate that Xerox wants to be a search player.

From the Forbes article:

Researchers at the document-management company’s European R&D center announced Wednesday that they’ve developed a new type of search technology, called FactSpotter, which can handle natural human phrases, and search for related results that include synonyms and pronouns within a document.

See Also: FactSpotter News Release




Below, you'll find a selected (and far from comprehensive list) of some Xerox IP.

Selected Search Patents or Patent Apps Held by Xerox:
Published Patents
+ Cascading cluster collages: visualization of image search results on small displays
+ Personalized web search method
+ Method for automated image indexing and retrieval

Awarded Patents
+ Systems and methods for authoritativeness grading, estimation and sorting of documents in large heterogeneous document collections
+ System and method for viewing search results
+ Collaborative searching by query induction
+ Search engine with structured contextual clustering
+ System and method for improving answer relevance in meta-search engines
+ Systems and methods for performing crawl searches and index searches
+ User Query Generate Search Results That Rank Set Of Servers Where Ranking Is Based On Comparing Content On Each Server With User Query, Frequency At Which Content On Each Server Is Altered Using Web Crawler In A Search Engine

See Also: Don't Forget that Back in 2004, we posted about Microsoft working in this area with AskMSR.

See Also: We've also posted several links to research from the Univ. of Washington named
KnowitAll
.

KnowItAll, a search engine under development at the University of Washington, Seattle, trawls the web for data and then collates it in the form of a list. The approach is unique, says its developer, Oren Etzioni, because it generates information that probably does not exist on any single web page.

Direct to KnowItAll Home Page and the home page of Dr. Orem Etzion that includes links to TextRunner and Opine demos.

See Also: Xerox Has Also Licensed Some of Its NLP Technology to Powerset, an NLP-powered web engine (for the consumer marketplace) coming soon. We posted a new item about Powerset last week.

See Also: Xerox announces categorization software (via FCW March, 2004)

See Also: Xerox Europe Will Giving an Award for the Best Student Paper at the Upcoming Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing Conference.


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