New Search Related Patent Apps: A Busy Day for Microsoft; Google Patent Imagines Robots Indexing The Grocery Aisle
Yesterday, we focused on a small selection of recently awarded search related patents to Amazon.com, Google, and Microsoft.
Today, a look at a few new search related patent applications that were published on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008.
Providing rating information for an event based on user feedback
Assignee: PC Tools Technology Pty Limited
20080005761
Non-Repetitive Web Searching
Assignee: Bell South
20080005070
User interface for mobile devices
Assignee: NA
20080005668
System for Automatically Generating Queries
Asignee: Xerox
20080005651
Searching users in heterogeneous instant messaging services
Assignee: NA
20080005252
Presentation Of Structured Search Results
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005118
Scenario-Based Search
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005079
Message Mining To Enhance Ranking Of Documents For Retrieval
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005108
Providing ad serving entity attribution and/or solicitation messages for call-on-select listings, such as for calls placed via call-on-select free listings
Assignee: NA
20080005268
Visual And Multi-Dimensional Search
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005105
Localized Marketing
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005104
Method And System For Finding The Focus Of A Document
Assignee: NA
20080005094
Intelligently Guiding Search Based On User Dialog
Assignee: Microsoft
20080005075
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
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