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OVERTURE SERVICES INC
US·48 granted patents·4 pending applications·8,844 citations·filing 1998–2007
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52 records- 0199US6871202B2Method and apparatus for ranking web page search resultsOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 22, 2005·282 cites·17 claims
- 0298US7373599B2Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpageOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted May 13, 2008·842 cites·22 claims
- 0398US7100111B2Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpageOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 29, 2006·823 cites·27 claims
- 0498US6978263B2System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Dec 20, 2005·215 cites·6 claims
- 0598US6947930B2Systems and methods for interactive search query refinementOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Sep 20, 2005·439 cites·75 claims
- 0697US6907566B1Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpageOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 1999·Granted Jun 14, 2005·1.3k cites·31 claims
- 0797US6701317B1Web page connectivity server constructionOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 2, 2004·227 cites·33 claims
- 0896US7092901B2System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 15, 2006·133 cites·20 claims
- 0996US7093012B2System and method for enhancing crawling by extracting requests for webpages in an information flowOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 15, 2006·193 cites·26 claims
- 1096US6826572B2System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using groupingOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 30, 2004·353 cites·26 claims
- 1196US6665837B1Method for identifying related pages in a hyperlinked databaseOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 1998·Granted Dec 16, 2003·281 cites·54 claims
- 1295US6876997B1Method and apparatus for indentifying related searches in a database search systemOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Apr 5, 2005·362 cites·14 claims
- 1395US6799298B2Technique for locating an item of interest within a stored representation of dataOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 28, 2004·135 cites·38 claims
- 1495US6778975B1Search engine for selecting targeted messagesOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Aug 17, 2004·226 cites·38 claims
- 1595US6704727B1Method and system for generating a set of search termsOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Mar 9, 2004·545 cites·19 claims
- 1694US7231395B2Method and apparatus for categorizing and presenting documents of a distributed databaseOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 12, 2007·128 cites·18 claims
- 1794US7231358B2Automatic flight management in an online marketplaceOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jun 12, 2007·102 cites·40 claims
- 1894US7197497B2Method and apparatus for machine learning a document relevance functionOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Mar 27, 2007·191 cites·56 claims
- 1994US7110993B2System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Sep 19, 2006·111 cites·4 claims
- 2094US7065500B2Automatic advertiser notification for a system for providing place and price protection in a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jun 20, 2006·143 cites·12 claims
- 2194US7035812B2System and method for enabling multi-element bidding for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted Apr 25, 2006·160 cites·16 claims
- 2293US7363300B2System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2006·Granted Apr 22, 2008·30 cites·16 claims
- 2393US7043483B2System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using groupingOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted May 9, 2006·120 cites·14 claims
- 2493US6983280B2Automated processing of appropriateness determination of content for search listings in wide area network searchesOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jan 3, 2006·197 cites·81 claims
- 2592US6775831B1System and method for rapid completion of data processing tasks distributed on a networkOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Aug 10, 2004·268 cites·30 claims
- 2691US7225184B2Disambiguation of search phrases using interpretation clustersOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted May 29, 2007·120 cites·90 claims
- 2791US7043471B2Search engine account monitoringOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted May 9, 2006·88 cites·25 claims
- 2890US7792818B2Method and apparatus for categorizing and presenting documents of a distributed databaseOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2006·Granted Sep 7, 2010·34 cites·10 claims
- 2990US7225182B2Recommending search terms using collaborative filtering and web spideringOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted May 29, 2007·166 cites·19 claims
- 3090US7117206B1Method for ranking hyperlinked pages using content and connectivity analysisOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 3, 2006·72 cites·17 claims
- 3188US7076479B1Search engine account monitoringOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Jul 11, 2006·67 cites·13 claims
- 3288US7054857B2Use of extensible markup language in a system and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted May 30, 2006·60 cites·19 claims
- 3386US7447691B2System and method to determine the validity of an interaction on a networkOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2005·Granted Nov 4, 2008·13 cites·24 claims
- 3485US7184972B2Retail coupon distribution apparatus and methodOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Feb 27, 2007·47 cites·30 claims
- 3585US7136860B2System and method to determine the validity of an interaction on a networkOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Nov 14, 2006·37 cites·37 claims
- 3684US7454409B2Displaying paid search listings in proportion to advertiser spendingOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Nov 18, 2008·30 cites·5 claims
- 3782US7260583B2Web page connectivity server constructionOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Aug 21, 2007·29 cites·42 claims
- 3882US7240064B2Search engine with hierarchically stored indicesOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 3, 2007·74 cites·17 claims
- 3982US7219090B2Method and system for blending search engine results from disparate sources into one search resultOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted May 15, 2007·50 cites·24 claims
- 4081US7398461B1Method for ranking web page search resultsOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2002·Granted Jul 8, 2008·30 cites·14 claims
- 4175US7330857B1Search engine with two-dimensional linearly scalable parallel architectureOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2000·Granted Feb 12, 2008·28 cites·8 claims
- 4273US7266551B2Method and system for generating a set of search termsOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Sep 4, 2007·19 cites·10 claims
- 4371US7203747B2Load balancing system and method in a multiprocessor systemOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2001·Granted Apr 10, 2007·19 cites·39 claims
- 4470US7440944B2Method and apparatus for efficient training of support vector machinesOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Oct 21, 2008·17 cites·11 claims
- 4565US7308445B2Method for estimating coverage of web search enginesOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Dec 11, 2007·19 cites·17 claims
- 4663US7406460B2Technique for ranking records of a databaseOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2004·Granted Jul 29, 2008·15 cites·20 claims
- 4758US2005223000A1System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engineOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2005·Application pending·0 cites
- 4849US7398266B2Dynamically categorizing entity informationOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Jul 8, 2008·2 cites·16 claims
- 4948US7441044B2CountrytaggingOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2003·Granted Oct 21, 2008·1 cites·19 claims
- 5046US2008071775A1System And Method For Ranking ItemsOVERTURE SERVICES INC·Filed 2007·Application pending·0 cites
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