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The system provides an automatically targeted network for text and graphical advertising based on cost-per-action bidded pricing, wherein actions comprise any of acquisitions, purchases, downloads, registrations, donations, clicks, and impressions. Contextual, search and behavioral relevance features are integrated to optimize ad selection for advertisers, who enter action objectives, associated bids, and creatives or catalog assets. The assets are automatically analyzed and stored, and ads are automatically constructed for catalog assets. When an ad request is received from a user terminal in regard to a publisher asset, e.g. a web page, the ad request is matched to a stored contextual analysis of at least a portion the publisher asset if available, and preferably to a profile associated with the user of the user terminal. The best advertisements are determined, based upon a predicted response, and are then served, i.e. displayed, at the user terminal, based upon available ad space.

A mechanism of ranking weblog or “blog” items is provided. More particularly, the subject ranking mechanisms can facilitate ranking blog feeds and blog items contained therein thus focusing and intelligently delivering content (e.g., blog items) to users. The subject innovation facilitates ranking the blog feeds and blog items by creating a context rank around each blog feed. The context rank represents a sum of a context weight, a track-back weight and a comment weight. Accordingly, this context rank can allow readers to sort blog items in the order of popularity or importance thus effectively reducing content noise.

A software system and method that allows website readers to create and store comments pertaining to website content, with tags identifying the comment, so that the comments may be easily retrieved at a later time. An administrator accesses a website to enter data (e.g. HTML code) for creating reader comment and tag. When the webpage containing the code is posted to a website, the code results in a reader comment and tag display page where website visitors can comment on the content of the website, and create one or more tags that identify their comment. Comments and tags are then saved at a local or remote website database accessible to the reader. A reader can find their comments that they posted on various websites stored within their database record by searching the database for comments with a particular tag. They can also assign new tags to their stored comments.

Methods, apparatus and computer code for providing information retrieval services (e.g. handling search queries and providing electronic advertising) in accordance with a given user's social network are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an information retrieval operation is handled according to the click stream and / or taste profile and / or user profile of different associated users of the social network—for example, indirect contacts. The respective influence, for any associated user (i.e. within the social network), of the associated user's click stream and / or taste profile and / or user profile on the handling of an information retrieval operation for the “given user” may be determined by a “closeness function” between the associated user and the given user. The closeness function and / or the taste profile and / or user profile of any associated user may, in some embodiments, be determined by analyzing electronic communications—for example, text chat communications and / or voice communications that optionally include video.

The claimed subject matter provides systems and / or techniques that effectuate combining domain-tuned search systems. The system can include mechanisms that obtain queries, written descriptions, or illustrative web-pages regarding a particular area of interest, and generate a definition related to the area of interest. The definition contains a list of paths with associated weights employed to identify an pre-established first domain-tuned search system related to the area of interest. The first domain-tuned search system thereafter can be combined with a second domain-tuned search system related to another area of interest and presented to a user for utilization in re-ranking generic search results to be specific to the first and second domains of interest if combined, or to only the first domain if weights for the second domain are logically subtracted.

The present invention will reserve lines of space within a message board display at predetermined positions for paid advertisement listings, such as hypertext links. The present invention will post purchased advertisement listing at the predetermined positions within the message board display in response to subscriber input. The present invention will post user messages to the message board display, adding new messages as they are input, while preserving the predetermined position of the advertising links.

A method for predicting to whom a phone call is being made, including identifying at least one state parameter for a mobile phone, and at least one weighting factor corresponding to the at least one state parameter for each identified state parameter, predicting one or more likely contacts that a user of the mobile phone is calling, given that the user is making a phone call, based on the identified state parameter, for each likely contact, assigning a combined weight to the likely contact based on the at least one weighting factor, ranking the likely contacts according to the combined weights, and facilitating making a phone call to one or more of the likely contacts with the highest rankings. A mobile phone is also described and claimed.

A system and method for optimizing the rankings of web pages of a commercial website within search engine keyword search results. A proxy website is created based on the content on the commercial website. When a search engine spider reaches the commercial website, the commercial website directs the search engine spider to the proxy website. The proxy website includes a series of proxy web pages that correspond to web pages on the commercial website along with modifications that enhance the rankings of the pages by the search engines. However, hyperlinks containing complex, dynamic URLs are replaced with spider-friendly versions. When a human visitor selects a proxy web page listing on the search engine results page, that visitor is directed to the proxy web page. The proxy server delivers the same content to the human visitor as to the search engine spider, only with simplified URLs for the latter.

A method for analysing incoming data, comprising the steps of processing the incoming data in segments to output a sequence of segment types by extracting one or more properties of an incoming data segment and forming an Unknown Property Vector for each segment of data in the incoming data, and processing the sequence of segment types to identify events in the incoming data. The sequence of segment types is determined, for each segment, by reference to a set of Reference Property Vectors that are relevant to the Unknown Property Vector. This may involve application of first and / or second and / or further functions to identify at least a first subset of Reference Property Vectors that are relevant to the Unknown Property Vector. Alternatively, a logistic regression algorithm, derived using clustering or classification methods for identifying candidate vectors, may be used.

The system provides an automatically targeted network for text and graphical advertising based on cost-per-action bidded pricing, wherein actions comprise any of acquisitions, purchases, downloads, registrations, donations, clicks, and impressions. Contextual, search and behavioral relevance features are integrated to optimize ad selection for advertisers, who enter action objectives, associated bids, and creatives or catalog assets. The assets are automatically analyzed and stored, and ads are automatically constructed for catalog assets. When an ad request is received from a user terminal in regard to a publisher asset, e.g. a web page, the ad request is matched to a stored contextual analysis of at least a portion the publisher asset if available, and preferably to a profile associated with the user of the user terminal. The best advertisements are determined, based upon a predicted response, and are then served, i.e. displayed, at the user terminal, based upon available ad space.

A method and system for computing scores and determining a winner between a plurality of users playing a plurality of different games on an interactive gaming network. Players are sequentially assigned to a player group as they initially log on to the gaming network. Each player selects and plays a game to produce a present raw score value which is converted into a present ranked percentage score value by calculating the percentage of past raw score values for the selected game that are below the present raw score value. A handicap value is added to the present raw score value to determine a normalized game score that can be compared to the normalized game scores of other users playing the same or different games in any combination. An average of a minimum number of game scores are used to compare players within the same player group.

According to certain aspects, a method of assessing users of a data storage system can include receiving configuration information relating to a deployed configuration of a first data storage cell and including number of installed data storage hardware and / or software components, the first data storage cell comprising a plurality of client computing devices and being configured to create and store one or more secondary copies of primary data generated by the plurality of client computing devices. The method may also include receiving information relating to an incident opened by a user of the first data storage cell. The method may further include updating a performance metric associated with the user to a new value to reflect a negative impact on the performance metric resulting from the opening of the incident by the user, wherein the degree of the negative impact is based at least in part on the configuration information.

The present invention provides a platform technology for testing, screening, selecting and evaluating antibiotics by using genetically engineered strains with identified, individual or combined, resistance mechanisms, prepared from fully susceptible clinical isolates. This antibiotic testing and screening system of the present invention can efficiently and effectively evaluate antibiotics against specified resistance mechanisms in vitro and in vivo, and is suitable on the novel antibiotic development in against multidrug-resistant bacteria.

The invention provides an individuation searching method based on book domain ontology, belonging to an individuation network searching service. The individuation searching method comprises the following steps of: establishing the domain ontology, introducing a collaborative filtering idea, and adding semantic relationships which present influences among users; analyzing and processing logs and establishing a user model based on user interests and preferences; computing individuation scoring through spreading Activation (SA) based on the user model and the domain ontology; in addition, rearranging searched results, rearranging the results returned by a primary search engine according to an individuation scoring sequence from high to low, and returning to the users. Through introducing the collaborative filtering idea into the domain ontology, establishing the user model which presents user interest changes timely, and analyzing user requirements accurately by the SA, the invention effectively eradicates ambiguity of key words and greatly improves satisfaction degree of the users on the searched results.

The invention provides an academic community system based on a massive knowledge network, comprising an information collection and storage module, which is used for collecting information provided by a network and users to form a knowledge network; an academic retrieval module, which is used for retrieving conferences, literatures, authors and field summaries in the knowledge network; an academic service module, which is used for serving individual demands of the users with the knowledge network; and a community module, which is used for information interactions among the users, as well as between the users and the knowledge network. By fully utilizing network resources, according to the academic community system provided by the invention, the knowledge network is formed to provide more retrieval and service functions and interaction interfaces between the users and a knowledge base, so that the scientific research demands of academic workers are met.

Methods and systems are described for computing page rankings more efficiently. Using an interconnectivity matrix describing the interconnection of web pages, a new matrix is computed. The new matrix is used to compute the average of values associated with each web page's neighboring web pages. The secondary eigenvector of this new matrix is computed, and indices for web pages are relabeled according to the eigenvector. The data structure storing the interconnectivity information is preferably also physically sorted according to the eigenvector. By reorganizing the matrix used in the web page ranking computations, caching is performed more efficiently, resulting in faster page ranking techniques. Methods for efficiently allocating the distribution of resources are also described.

A system and method for determining node relevancy by proximal weighting and pruning in a layered linked node database, such as that used to represent connections between a set of objects. The weights of connections between nodes in the layered linked node database is used as a distance metric, with propagation semantics determining how the summed relevancy is determined. This is particularly useful for determining, for a given node in a given layer, which nodes in another layer, or on the same layer, are most relevant. In the context of mobile device users, this is particularly useful for dynamically determining which people, places, events etc. are of greatest relevance in a scalable manner.

An image management device acquires an image group with an image acquisition unit, extracts objects and feature amounts from each image in the image group with an object detection unit, and sorts the objects into relevant clusters with an object sorting unit. Next, a similarity calculation unit calculates a similarity between the feature amounts of each object and each relevant cluster, a co-occurrence information generation unit finds co-occurrence information for each cluster, and then an accuracy calculation unit and an evaluation value calculation unit find an evaluation value for each object with respect to each cluster from the similarity and co-occurrence information. An object priority evaluation unit evaluates the object priority of each object with the evaluation value, and an image priority evaluation unit evaluates the priority of each image from the object priority.

A system that facilitates performance of a focused search over a collection of sites comprises a subweb that corresponds to a topic and / or user characteristic(s) that are of interest to the user. The subweb includes a plurality of domains and / or paths (e.g. sites) that are related to the topic and / or the user characteristic(s). Each of the sites within the subweb is assigned a weight that indicates relevance of the site to the desirable topic and / or user characteristic(s). A search engine employs the subweb to facilitate focusing a search over a collection of sites. The search engine receives a query, and utilizes the subweb to focus a search over the selection of sites corresponding to the topic and / or user characteristic(s) represented by the subweb. The results from the search are returned to the user based at least in part upon the relevance weights assigned to the sites within the subweb.

The invention discloses a network online knowledge and skill competition system and a realizing method thereof. The system comprises a client and a server, wherein the client and the server are connected by virtue of a wired network or a wireless network. The network online knowledge and skill competition system established by the invention provides real-time competition of knowledge and professional skills to a user, so that the user can enjoy leisure and entertainment in an interesting PK (player killing) process and improve knowledge in an interaction competition among people to improve the technical capacity, the system is a way of teaching through lively activities and growing in practical competition, and the system is beneficial to students and young workers. By virtue of levels and ranking of users, the sense of achievement of personal studying and skill improvement can be fulfilled, the personal studying enthusiasm can be further promoted, and an employed user can pay more attention to related professional fields particularly, so that communication, friend making and job opportunities in the professional field can be obtained.

A network based business and consumer resource system for businesses to open a dialog channel with customers and clients, and for potential customers and clients to open a dialog channel with businesses. A search engine is provided to allow potential customers to locate business profile pages, the search engine dependent upon the sum of points awarded to businesses on the network for performing various business related tasks. The search results may be provided in a format wherein brick and mortar businesses geographically local to the searcher are provided in one dataset while eCommerce search results are provided in another. Further, the present system through link swapping provides a means to increase the ranking of the business profile page on popular public search engines. Finally, a means is provided wherein business owners with large consumer lists can take part in targeted marketing to subsets of the list wherein the marketing occurs at a steady rate so the business minimizes large spikes in responses.

A mechanism of ranking weblog or “blog” items is provided. More particularly, the subject ranking mechanisms can facilitate ranking blog feeds and blog items contained therein thus focusing and intelligently delivering content (e.g., blog items) to users. The subject innovation facilitates ranking the blog feeds and blog items by creating a context rank around each blog feed. The context rank represents a sum of a context weight, a track-back weight and a comment weight. Accordingly, this context rank can allow readers to sort blog items in the order of popularity or importance thus effectively reducing content noise.

A user selectable evaluation indicia associated with a displayed unit of information within an application is provided. Responsive to a user interaction with the evaluation indicia, an evaluation opportunity is presented to the user. At least a portion of a user's activities comprising the user participation is transformed, responsive to the user's participation with the evaluation opportunity, into search framework metadata for the unit of information. The search framework metadata may facilitate ranking search results comprising the unit of information.

A network game system is provided in which players can play a considerable number of matches without spending a long period of time, and in which it is difficult for teams that are long left on a server without being logged in to maintain high ranking. In the network game system, the server performs processing of playing matches of PC teams automatically. Client computers each include means for organizing a PC team, and means for entering the PC team organized to the server. The server includes: means for storing the PC teams entered into storage means; means for updating team costs of the respective PC teams entered; means for resetting the team costs into initial values; and means for deleting athlete characters expired of athlete life.

A performance monitor device includes an input unit to input both of address information and event occurrence information, an address mask unit to determine an address area to which each piece of the inputted address information belongs, an execution frequency counter to count a number of times of execution of programs in the address areas, an execution frequency holding unit to hold a counting result of the number of times of execution, an event occurrence information counter to count the event occurrence information corresponding to the address areas having the counting result of the number of times of execution included within a predetermined number of highest ranks, a holding unit to hold a counting results of the event occurrence information, and a storing unit to store the counting result of the event occurrence information corresponding to the address area having the highest number of times of execution in predetermined periods.

The present invention generally provides methods and systems for characterizing texts, for example, for identifying textual documents by language, topic, author, or other attributes. In some embodiments, a method of the invention can include creating an n-gram frequency spectrum for a document under analysis, preferably selecting a subset of the n-gram frequency spectrum, transforming the n-gram frequency spectrum into principal component space, and identifying one or more attributes of the document according to its similarity to (or distinction from) reference documents in the principal component space.

The present disclosure discloses a method for generating a search result and an information search system. The method for generating a search result includes: receiving, by an information search system, a search request; obtaining, by searching, a plurality of pieces of matching information that match the search request; obtaining a respective amount of user response associated with each of the plurality of pieces of matching information and further obtaining a total amount of user response associated with a respective categories to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs; and ranking the plurality of pieces of information to generate a search result based on the total amount of user response associated with the respective category to which each of the plurality of pieces of matching information belongs. By using the above technical scheme, a result of more rational ranking of matching information can be displayed to a user when the user performs a search, thus improving experience of the user.

The present invention provides a game providing system which can expect that a registered player prolongs or extends his or her contract period and can enhance an access ratio of the registered player to a game site. A game providing system includes a portable terminal (10) and a game server which are connected to each other via the Internet and allowing the game server to give points which are exchangeable with a predetermined commodity or service to a member who gains access to the game server from the portable terminal (10) and plays a game on a game site, wherein the game server has means which changes the points in accordance with attributes of the member.

The present invention is directed to a method of promoting the high ranking of a website that is more certain to succeed and less susceptible to current and future advances in search engine filtering techniques. This method includes not only creating a large number of Major Specialty Areas each of which categorizes a general business area or activity to which a Blog is directed, but also further establishing a very large number of Sub-Specialty Areas within each Major Specialty Area so to more specifically categorize a business area or activity to which a Blog is directed. The method further includes determining the number of Blog Postings which need to be linked to a website to achieve a high ranking of the website by a search engine. For this purpose, the nature of the website is categorized, by the Blog Posting purchaser, into at least one Major Specialty Area and at least one Sub-Specialty Area within the Major Specialty Area. Next, Blog Distributor provides a requisite number of Blog Postings directed to the Major Specialty Area and Sub-Specialty Area needed to be linked to the website in order to achieve the high ranking. In this latter regard, the method includes determining how many Blogs are available from external Bloggers to provide the requisite number of Blog Postings. If the number of externally written Blogs is insufficient, then a number of Internal Blogs are created, this number of Blogs being sufficient to supply the remaining number of Blog Postings required. The result is that the requisite number and type of Blog Postings needed to be linked to the website in order to achieve the high ranking are provided, and this is done in a timely and cost efficient manner.