Google Search Patents first half 2010

And last but most certainly not least, we have the search patents awards from the first half of 2010. We will be following this up tomorrow with a post looking at the last three years of search patent awards to Google. The goal is to look at the history and see what, if any, patterns emerge from it all. Be sure to check back tomorrow for that one.

Geo-local

• Markup language for interactive geographic information system
• Classification of ambiguous geographic references
• Using boundaries associated with a map view for business location searching
• Geocoding Personal Information
• Markup Language for Interactive Geographic Information System
• Classification of ambiguous geographic references
• System for automatically integrating a digital map system
• Enhanced Search Results (Maps)

Ranking methods

• Methods and systems for output of search results
• Systems and methods for ranking implicit search results

Semantic and NLP

• Transliteration for query expansion
• Systems and methods for inferring concepts for association with content
• Machine Learning for Transliteration
• Meaning-based advertising and document relevance determination
• Phrase-based detection of duplicate documents in an information retrieval system

News

• Interactive financial charting and related news correlation

Recommendation engine

• Generating query suggestions using contextual information

Social Search

• Open profile content identification

Behavioural data

• Systems and methods for generating multiple implicit search queries
• Personalization of placed content ordering in search results
• Ranking documents based on user behavior and/or feature data
• Variable personalization of search results in a search engine
• Document ranking based on semantic distance between terms in a document
• Providing Digital Content Based On Expected User Behavior
• Systems and methods for providing searchable prior history
• Scalable user clustering based on set similarity

Systemic Elements

• Multiple index based information retrieval system
• Methods and systems for detecting and extracting information
• Systems and methods for providing a graphical display of search activity
• Index updating using segment swapping
• Providing Search Results
• Methods and systems for information capture and retrieval
• Scheduler for search engine crawler
• Accelerated large scale optimization
• Identifying inadequate search content
• Indexing server architecture using tiered and sharded phrase posting lists

Page Segmentation

• Document segmentation based on visual gaps
• Methods and systems for improving text segmentation
• Segmenting Printed Media Pages Into Articles

Named Entities

• Associating an Entity with a Category

Duplicate Content

• System for automatically managing duplicate documents when crawling dynamic documents
• Information retrieval system for archiving multiple document versions
• Document near-duplicate detection
• Phrase based detection of duplicate documents in an informational retrieval system

Deep Web

• Facilitating searches through content which is accessible through web-based forms

Video

• System and Method for Translating Timed Text in Web Video

Semantic markup

• System and method for updating facts in a fact repository (meta data)

URLs

• Resource locator suggestions from input character sequence

Query Analysis

• Method and system for processing queries initiated by users of mobile devices
• Automatic completion of fragments of text

Temporal

• Time-multiplexing documents based on preferences or relatedness

Other

• Providing Posts to Discussion Threads in Response to a Search Query
• Content identification expansion
• Enhanced document browsing with automatically generated links to relevant information
• Custom search index

And there we have it. As I mentioned off the top we will be looking more at the last three years worth of Google patent awards to see what it may show us as far as the direction Google is taking.

Past Google Patent Roun-ups;

• Google Search patents 2008
• SEO Geeks Picks 09; Google Search Patents

The entire first half of 2010 series;

• Yahoo Search Patents first half of 2010
• Microsoft Search Patents first half 2010
• Google Search Patents first half 2010