524 results about "Search interface" patented technology

Data for electronic images is stored in a server. Metadata is assigned to each image file and categorizes each image according to one or more schemes. Possible metadata schemes include image date, one or more image subjects, and image location. The image files may then be searched based on the assigned metadata. Images may be stored in a database that includes at least one virtual folder corresponding to each metadata scheme, with each image having at least one entry in each folder. Each folder may further have subfolders that correspond to sub-categories of a categorization scheme. Each image may then have an entry in each subfolder which describes a part of the image metadata. A date search interface allows a user to select a year of interest, then a month, and then a day. A location search interface allows a user to select a subregion of a displayed region.

The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques (including predictive text techniques to facilitate the generation of targeted ads) that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth. Applications are built by leveraging existing collaborative cloud services that enable the maintenance and sharing of user content.

Context-specific transaction proposals are automatically generated and presented to a user who expresses interest in a particular topic. A user viewing a World Wide Web page or other content item activates an interface to indicate that he or she is interested in additional information related to the subject of the page. A context vector or other representation of the content of the page being viewed is transmitted to an information server, which identifies possible transactions related to the content and proposes one or more of these transactions to the user. Transaction proposals can be presented together with a contextual search interface that allows the user to submit zero or more search terms together with the context vector as a search query.

A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven, hierarchical search and navigation system that employs this search and navigation mode. The search and navigation system of the present invention includes features of an navigation interface, a search interface, a knowledge base and a taxonomy definition process and a classification process for generating the knowledge base, a graph-based navigable data structure and method for generating the data structure, World Wide Web-based applications of the system, and methods of implementing the system. Users are able to search or browse a particular collection of documents by selecting desired values for the attributes or by searching the attribute-value pairs. A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable this navigation mode by associating terms with the materials, defining a set of hierarchical relationships among the terms, providing a guided navigation mechanism based on the relationship between the terms, and providing a search mechanism that can respond to free-text queries with single-term or multi-term interpretations. In another aspect of the invention, implementations of the invention may be scalable through parallel or distributed computation.

A system and related techniques execute search queries against both remote Internet or other search services, as well as local or remote email stores. A user may access a search service Web site or other search interface, and enter search inputs or terms. That search input may be transmitted to a remote search service via the Internet or other network, as well as through access logic which communicates the same search inputs to the user's local or remote email store. Web sites as well as email messages or other content that matches the search input may be retrieved both from the remote search service as well as the email store, and presented to the user in combined or separate fashion. The access logic may manage the transmission of necessary authentication credentials to remote servers or otherwise to access and retrieve the email portion of the results. According to embodiments, email search results may be cached to improve access time and integration with results retrieved from the search service.

An improved method and system for providing context-sensitive help and interactive search capability in an insurance claims processing system is described. Context-sensitive help for a step in processing an insurance claim may be automatically invoked when entering the step. Alternatively, the user may interactively invoke context-sensitive help once the step is displayed. The insurance claims processing system may display information from a located help table in order of relevance. A search interface may also be provided by the insurance claims processing system.

Systems and methods are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query. The context vector can be enhanced by the addition of terms related to one or more terms appearing in the context vector or the query.

The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques (including predictive text techniques to facilitate the generation of targeted ads) that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth. Applications are built by leveraging existing collaborative cloud services that enable the maintenance and sharing of user content.

A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable search and navigation of sets of documents or other materials by certain common attributes that characterize the materials. The invention includes several aspects of a data-driven, hierarchical search and navigation system that employs this search and navigation mode. The search and navigation system of the present invention includes features of an navigation interface, a search interface, a knowledge base and a taxonomy definition process and a classification process for generating the knowledge base, a graph-based navigable data structure and method for generating the data structure, World Wide Web-based applications of the system, and methods of implementing the system. Users are able to search or browse a particular collection of documents by selecting desired values for the attributes or by searching the attribute-value pairs. A data-driven, hierarchical information search and navigation system and method enable this navigation mode by associating terms with the materials, defining a set of hierarchical relationships among the terms, providing a guided navigation mechanism based on the relationship between the terms, and providing a search mechanism that can respond to free-text queries with single-term or multi-term interpretations. In another aspect of the invention, implementations of the invention may be scalable through parallel or distributed computation.

Systems and methods, including user interfaces, are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query.

An improved method and system for providing context-sensitive help and interactive search capability in an insurance claims processing system. A help information database may include one or more index tables, one or more header tables and one or more text tables. In one embodiment, the context-sensitive help for a step in processing an insurance claim may be automatically invoked when entering the step. Alternatively, the user may interactively invoke context-sensitive help once the step is displayed. The insurance claims processing system may search one or more index tables for entries including a page ID and / or codes from one or more elements of the page. The insurance claims processing system may locate one or more entries in the one or more index tables and then locate entries in the one or more help tables using information from the entries located in the one or more index tables. The insurance claims processing system may then display information from the located help table entries in order of relevance. A search interface may also be provided by the insurance claims processing system. A user may enter one or more terms to be searched for in the help database. The insurance claims processing system may then search for and locate one or more entries in the one or more index tables that include at least one of the one or more terms. The located entries in the index table may then be used to locate help entries in the one or more help tables that include at least one of the one or more terms. The insurance claims processing system may then display information from the located help table entries in order of relevance.

Web-based user interface systems and methods for searching metadata-driven relational databases. Instead of requiring developers to determine the exact type and number of search criteria for each application, the present invention advantageously provides a user-customizable search interface that, in certain aspects, leverages dynamic HTML, JavaScript, and dynamic SQL. A user may choose the exact type and number of search parameters, enabling the user to build a custom report without requiring the user to write any code. The system dynamically builds a SQL search query based on the user identified search parameters. Once a user has built a custom search using the interface, that search may be saved for re-use, and shared with other users.

An interface for editing media assets is provided. The interface includes a display for displaying a plurality of tiles, each tile associated with a media asset, and a timeline for displaying relative times of each of the plurality of media assets as edited by a user for an aggregate media asset. The timeline display automatically adjusts in response to edits to the media assets; in one example, the timeline concatenating in response to an edit or change in the media assets selected for the aggregate media asset (e.g., in response to the addition, deletion, or edit of a selected media asset). Additionally, in some examples, the timeline maintains a fixed length when adjusting in response to edits to the media assets. In another example, the interface includes a search interface for searching for media assets from remote or local sources.

The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth.

The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques (including predictive text techniques to facilitate the generation of targeted ads) that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth.

An internet-based real estate searching process dynamically serves and delivers relevant contextual content to the user. In a preferred embodiment, the process includes the steps of obtaining user profile information, presenting a real estate search interface to a searching user, obtaining search criteria from the searching user, searching a real estate data base using the search criteria, returning search results, obtaining a property selection from among said search results, and running coordinated video and audio information relevant to the property selection. Targeted ads are run based on matching characteristics of the target market segment to the user's profile. The user's profile is modified and updated based on tracking of the users selections of advertisements and searched properties

This invention provides a search system based on video program content characters including a search dispatch server used in analyzing and dispatching the search requests put forward by users to search in terms of a certain strategy to grade, arrange and merge the search result to feed them back to the user, an element data search server searching the element data of the video program based on the requirement of the server, a caption search server searching the XML file storing program caption texts, a video search cluster used in searching the character data of the video key frame, a phone search cluster used in searching the phonetic information of video programs including spelling series and spelling patterns and a search interface facing to users receiving request of users in terms of signed message format and feeding back the search result.

A system for searching an object environment includes harvesting and indexing applications to create a search database and one or more indexes into the database. A scoring application determines the relevance of the objects, and a querying application locates objects in the database according to a search term. One or more of the indexes may be implemented by a hash table or other suitable data structure, where algorithms provide for adding objects to the indexes and searching for objects in the indexes. A ranking scheme sorts searchable items according to an estimate of the frequency that the items will be used in the future. Multiple indexes enable a combined prefix title and full-text content search of the database, accessible from a single search interface.

A system, method, and computer-accessible medium for searching in a server management system are disclosed. One or more search terms are determined. A search is performed for object definitions which match the search terms, thereby determining one or more matching objects corresponding to the object definitions which match the one or more search terms. The matching objects are reported.

The invention discloses a visual search interface design method provided with the semantic classification function. The design provides a novel information retrieval service; the user can obtain the required key information in the candidate set of the search result conveniently, in particular facilitates the key information browsing of the user. The key implementation steps of the interface design described in the invention description include: the candidate set is obtained through the current commercial search engine; the candidate search result is processed with the semantic classification and the extraction of the subject classification information; in each classification, the selected search result is reported to the user in the summary form and displayed in classifications through the multi-stage or the screen block form. The search interface disclosed by the invention can show all the useful information in the search result set to the user completely, help the user process the network search efficiently and enable the user to quickly obtain the required information from the search result set without browsing the large quantity of repeated information in the search result candidate set.

The invention provides a method and equipment for displaying search answer information on a search interface. In the invention, by acquiring the search information of a user, the search information is matched with prestored question-answer pairs and one or more question-answer pairs matched with the whole or partial content of the search information are acquired; and answer information corresponding to the search information is provided for the user according to the one or more question-answer pairs. The method and the equipment have the advantages of: 1) directly providing a deterministic answer based on the search information for the user on the search interface according to the search information input by the user, and providing a search result based on the search information for the user at the same time; 2) generating a question-answer pair library by analyzing webpage content and encyclopedic knowledge, and providing comprehensive and real-time answers for the user; and 3) improving answer accuracy by using related information of the user and / or further interaction with the user, and providing better personalized experiences for the user.

The invention is applicable to the mobile terminal field and provides a method, a system and a mobile terminal for prompting contact information in a communication process. The method comprises the following steps: recognizing voice in the communication process into characters; detecting whether the characters contain key information; if so, extracting statements containing the key information; searching the related contact information matched with the key information statements in a contact database; and displaying the searched related contact information in a communication interface. The invention can cooperatively display the related contact information in the communication interface timely, facilitate check of users, solve the problems in the prior art that the search interface of an address book is required to be entered when the contact information in the communication process is searched, and a plurality of operating steps are performed to find out the related contact information so as to influence the communication effect with the opposite side to a great extent.

The invention relates to the technical field of information search, and discloses a method and equipment for expanding user search results. The method comprises the following steps of: acquiring search keywords input by a user on a search interface; acquiring associated words associated with the search keywords; querying an index database according to the search keywords, the associated words andthe combination of the search keywords and the associated words to obtain search results respectively; performing repeat removal and sequencing on the search results; and sending the sequenced searchresults to a client so that the client can show the received search results to users. According to the technical scheme provided by the invention, richer search results can be intelligently provided for the users.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for helping a user make a decision through the use of a computing facility, where the computing facility may be a machine learning facility. The process may begin with an initial question being received by the computing facility from the user. The user may then be provided with a dialog consisting of questions from the computing facility and answers provided by the user. The computing facility may then provide a decision to the user based on the dialog and pertaining to the initial question, such as a recommendation, a diagnosis, a conclusion, advice, and the like. In embodiments, future questions and decisions provided by the computing facility may be improved through feedback provided by the user. In embodiments, the present invention may be utilized in conjunction with a third-party application.

A device with touch-sensitive surface and display is configured to: display a page of a multi-page interface; and detect an input that includes a contact and movement of the contact on the touch-sensitive surface. The device is further configured to, in response to detecting the input: if the input meets next-page display criteria, where the next-page display criteria include a criterion that is met when the contact moves by more than a predefined amount in a first predetermined direction, replace display of the page with display of a second page of the multi-page interface; and if the input meets search-interface display criteria, where the search-interface display criteria include a criterion that is met when the contact moves by more than the predefined amount in a second predetermined direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, display a search interface that includes a search input field for inputting search terms.

Described herein are methods and systems related to managing the storage of telephony-related data, such as calls, contacts, and / or messages. An illustrative embodiment receives media via a telephonic device. The media is stored in a first data store with a first degree of compression as a first file of a first size. A search interface is provided via which a user can search for the media. After a first period of time and / or at least partly in response to determining that the media has not been accessed or has been infrequently accessed, the media is stored in a second data store with a second degree of compression as a second file of a second size, wherein the second degree of compression is higher than the first degree of compression, and wherein the second size is smaller than the first size.

A system providing seller pre-qualification during the matching phase of an electronic commerce transaction includes a directory structure 44 comprising multiple hierarchically organized product classes, each product class categorizing multiple products and defining one or more attributes of the products categorized in the product class. The system also includes one or more pointers for each product class, each pointer identifying a seller database 32 in which product data enabling a product transaction is stored for products categorized in the product class. Each seller database 32 is associated with a seller 30 having values for one or more seller attributes. The system further includes a search interface 45 operable to communicate, in response to selection of a product class and specification of one or more seller attribute criteria, a search query for product data only to one or more seller databases 32 associated with sellers 30 having seller attribute values matching the specified seller attribute criteria, these seller databases 32 being identified by the one or more pointers associated with the selected product class.

Systems and methods are provided for implementing searches using contextual information associated with a Web page (or other document) that a user is viewing when a query is entered. The page includes a contextual search interface that has an associated context vector representing content of the page. When the user submits a search query via the contextual search interface, the query and the context vector are both provided to the query processor and used in responding to the query.

Data for electronic images is stored in a server. Metadata is assigned to each image file and categorizes each image according to one or more schemes. Possible metadata schemes include image date, one or more image subjects, and image location. The image files may then be searched based on the assigned metadata. Images may be stored in a database that includes at least one virtual folder corresponding to each metadata scheme, with each image having at least one entry in each folder. Each folder may further have subfolders that correspond to sub-categories of a categorization scheme. Each image may then have an entry in each subfolder which describes a part of the image metadata. A date search interface allows a user to select a year of interest, then a month, and then a day. A location search interface allows a user to select a subregion of a displayed region.