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The method, program and system secures sensitive data / objects found in a data source document with an editor. The simple editor identifies and displays, in situ, the sensitive words / objects per each security level. Level tags are inserted and adjunctive words / objects are marked / displayed per the level's protocol. The precursor document is processed to extract sensitive and adjunctive words / objects. The stripped data is either separately stored or partial versions of the secured document are stored per protocol. A comprehensive editor secures content data and meta data contained in a data document object model (DOM). The editor maps the source document root, branch and leaf components as binary files populated with content data and meta data. Security introns, earlier identified based upon the level's informational attributes, are excluded. Security exons are copied from the source content and meta data binary files into a security safe document (template). Filtration, extraction, dispersal and storage follow.

A content-targeting ad system is provided with a user behavior (e.g., selection (e.g., click), conversion, etc.) feedback mechanism. The performance of individual ads, or groups of ads, may be tracked on a per document (e.g. per URL) and / or on a per host (e.g. per Website) basis. The performance of ad targeting functions may also be tracked on a per document, and / or per host basis. Such user behavior feedback data may be processed (e.g., aggregated) into useful data structures. Such user behavior feedback data (raw or processed) may then be used in a content-targeting ad system to improve ad quality, improve user experience, and / or maximize revenue.

A system and method for creating a user profile and for using the user profile to order search results returned by a search engine. The user profile is based on search queries submitted by a user, the user's specific interaction with the documents identified by the search engine and personal information provided by the user. Generic scores associated with the search results are modulated by the user profile to measure their relevance to a user's preference and interest. The search results are re-ordered accordingly so that the most relevant results appear on the top of the list. User profiles can be created and / or stored on the client side or server side of a client-server network environment.

A system identifies a document and obtains one or more types of history data associated with the document. The system may generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the one or more types of history data.

Personalized advertisements are provided to a user using a search engine to obtain documents relevant to a search query. The advertisements are personalized in response to a search profile that is derived from personalized search results. The search results are personalized based on a user profile of the user providing the query. The user profile describes interests of the user, and can be derived from a variety of sources, including prior search queries, prior search results, expressed interests, demographic, geographic, psychographic, and activity information.

The serving of advertisements with (e.g., on) video documents may be improved in a number of ways. For example, a system may (a) accept information defining at least one ad spot associated with at least one instance of an video document, (b) accept offers to have advertisements served in the ad spot(s), and (c) arbitrate among competing advertisements, using at least the offers, to determine at least one advertisement to be served in that ad spot(s). As another example, a system may (a) accept relevance information for an advertisement, (b) determine at least one video document using the accepted relevance information, (c) present information about the video document(s) to an advertiser associated with the advertisement, and (d) accept, from the advertiser, an offer to have its advertisement served with at least one of the video document(s) accepted. As yet another example, a system may (a) accept relevance information for an video document, (b) determine a plurality of advertisements relevant to the video document using the relevance information and serving constraints of the advertisements, and (c) select at least one of the determined relevant advertisements to be served with the video document. Examples of video documents include video files published on the Internet, television programs, live or recorded talk shows, video-voice mail, segments of an video conversation, etc.

A method and apparatus for selecting and converting database records or sets of related documents into network data and presenting that data in a network visualization system that enables users to select among, and move between various network displays by selecting one or more attributes of the data to be represented as the nodes and links of the network.

One implementation of a method reassembles complete client-server conversation streams, applies decoders and / or decompressors, and analyzes the resulting data stream using multi-dimensional content profiling and / or weighted keyword-in-context. The method may detect the extrusion of the data, for example, even if the data has been modified from its original form and / or document type. The decoders may also uncover hidden transport mechanisms such as, for example, e-mail attachments. The method may further detect unauthorized (e.g., rogue) encrypted sessions and stop data transfers deemed malicious. The method allows, for example, for building 2 Gbps (Full-Duplex)-capable extrusion prevention machines.

A high level transformation method and apparatus for converting data formats in the context of network applications, among other places. A flexible transformation mechanism is provided that facilitates generation of translation machine code. A translator is dynamically generated by a translator compiler engine. When fed an input stream, the translator generates an output stream by executing the native object code generated on the fly by the translator compiler engine. In addition, the translator may be configured to perform a bi-directional translation between the two streams as well as translation between two distinct protocol sequences. Further a translator may working in streaming mode, to facilitate streaming processing of documents.

A system and method of locating an online site or document for a user. At least one question is provided to a user, the question being associated with a plurality of predefined answers. One of the plurality of predefined answers is received. This predefined answer is associated with a keyword. A link is retrieved for the online site or document, the link being associated with the keyword.

A fact extraction tool set (“FEX”) finds and extracts targeted pieces of information from text using linguistic and pattern matching technologies, and in particular, text annotation and fact extraction. Text annotation tools break a text, such as a document, into its base tokens and annotate those tokens or patterns of tokens with orthographic, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic and other attributes. A user-defined “Annotation Configuration” controls which annotation tools are used in a given application. XML is used as the basis for representing the annotated text. A tag uncrossing tool resolves conflicting (crossed) annotation boundaries in an annotated text to produce well-formed XML from the results of the individual annotators. The fact extraction tool is a pattern matching language which is used to write scripts that find and match patterns of attributes that correspond to targeted pieces of information in the text, and extract that information.

A system and method for searching, accessing, retrieving, representing and browsing geographic or location related information from the Web (i.e.: HTML documents that describe physical places), including a geographic distribution of places where selectable types of resources are located or certain types of services provided. A user may select any one of the automatically mapped locations and browse the information for this location.Documents accessible through the Web are tagged with the cartographic coordinates of the physical location referenced in the document and, optionally, with attributes of this physical location. Also provided is a method for searching and retrieving the tagged documents from a computer system by queries specifying parameters such as the cartographic coordinates of a reference location, the size of the geographic area to search around this reference location, and / or attributes of the locations to search inside that geographic area.

The systems and methods disclosed herein provide for authentication of content sources and / or metadata sources so that downstream users of syndicated content can rely on these attributes when searching, citing, and / or redistributing content. To further improve the granularity and reusability of content, globally unique identifiers may be assigned to fragments of each document. This may be particularly useful for indexing documents that contain XML grammar with functional aspects, where atomic functional components can be individually indexed and referenced independent from a document in which they are contained.

A document management system includes means for receiving a document through a network and converting the document to a format that is compatible with an online electronic filing system. In one embodiment, the format is compliant with the Security Exchange Commission's EDGAR database system. The system can split the document into a plurality of sub-documents that can be assigned to different editors. Thus, the editors can work in parallel with one another to prepare the document for filing. After the editors have made revisions, if any, to their respective sub-documents, the system merges the sub-documents into a single EDGAR-compliant document for submission to the EDGAR system.

Methods and systems are presented to predetermine and record the classes of each indexed document with respect to each of its index keywords, and to provide high quality and relevant classification of the document when it is searched with said keyword. Document classes, recorded in advance, are used as the clustering information of each document in the search results to realize efficient, large-scale and high quality search result clustering. One embodiment provides a method for search result clustering, which includes recording the classes of each indexed document when the document is searched with each of its index keywords. This method further includes grouping the search results according to the classes of each result document with respect to the keyword or keywords contained in the search query. By prerecording the classes of each document with respect to each index keyword, the classes of each document in the search results in response to a search query can be directly determined via the keywords included in the search query. Each result document is put into each of its classes associated with each of the search keywords, and the union of all the classes of the result documents is used to construct the final document clusters for the search results. The clusters are ranked according to the ranks of documents included in each cluster and the weights of the clustered documents in the corresponding cluster. The clustered search results are presented to the user in such a way that clusters with higher ranks, and documents with higher ranks in each cluster are preferentially presented. Each cluster can be displayed and navigated in an independent framed subarea of the output window.

Methods, systems, computer program products, and methods of doing business whereby document components are secured or controlled using “security containers” which encapsulate the components (and other component metadata). A “security container” encapsulates the component (i.e., content) that is to be controlled within a higher-level construct such as a compound document. The security container also contains rules for interacting with the encapsulated component, and one or more encryption keys usable for decrypting the component and rules for authorized requesters.

Methods and systems are provided to present the search results in response to a search query that is submitted to a document retrieval system, such as a search engine. The search results are presented with a second-retrieval model that constructs multiple derived queries for the search query with a first small-document retrieval process, and then generates and outputs the results based on the retrieval of search results of at least part of the derived queries. One embodiment of the invention provides a method for grouping the search results, which presents ranked derived queries together with their search results to the user, in such a way that derived queries with higher ranks and top-ranked documents of each derived query are preferentially presented, and the grouped results are displayed and navigated in independent framed subareas of an output window. A further embodiment selects the search results from multiple result lists of the derived queries to form the final search results for the user query, wherein the merged results are re-ranked according to pre-determined criteria. The method can also be integrated with the local keyword associated clustering method by rank value adjustment, or result filtering or merging to achieve better technical effects.

A method and apparatus for broadcasting live personal performances over the Internet employs a web server to manage scheduling and broadcasting of the performances over the Internet, as well as collections and payments for products and services sold by presenters to viewers in conjunction with their performances. The server receives audio / video data from presenter operated computers through an uploaded presenter program, and relays the received audio / video data to viewer operated computers for viewing in media players invoked by their web browsers responding to an uploaded HTML document or JAVA applet. Viewers select performances to view from a program schedule provided on a webpage hosted by the web server. Both viewers and presenters are registered with the web server to facilitate payments for products and services, and their financial information stored in a secure user database.

A computer-implemented method and system for advertising that performs the steps of delivering an electronic advertisement comprising one or more menu options and a reference to a network location for retrieving specified content associated with each menu option for inclusion in a first electronic document, receiving a selection of one or more menu options from the electronic advertisement and delivering a subsequent accessible document including content from the referenced network location associated with the menu option selected, the subsequent accessible document including the electronic advertisement.

A user annotates a shared document with text, sound, images, video, an e-mail message, graphics, screen snapshots, web site snapshots to share with others. The document and its annotations are stored in a digital object repository to which other users have access. Within the closed collaboration system, only users who are authenticated may upload digital objects, annotate digital objects and view objects and their annotations. The user sends a message to other users to invite them to view the object and its annotations and to add their own annotations. An annotated object generates an alert for all of the invited users. A remote authentication gateway authenticates users and has a repository for user metadata. Digital object repositories are separate from the authentication gateway, thus providing for disintermediation of the user metadata from the digital object data. The collaboration system may be hosted by a third party on a server computer available over the Internet that displays a web site. A user is not required to have collaboration system software on his or her computer and may annotate any image on the web site for later viewing by other users of the web site.

A system and method for authenticating documents and content thereof. A counterfeit resistant document recording medium is provided, having thereon a predefined unique document identifier and at least one security feature. The recording medium is thereafter imprinted with document content, which typically varies between documents. The document content is stored in a database, indexed by an associated document identifier. The document may then be authenticated by checking the security feature and comparing the stored document content with a perceived document content. The system provides a number of opportunities for commercial exploitation, including sales of identified recording media, recording of information in a database, on-line authentication transactions, differential accounting for document validations and counterfeit identifications, imprinting devices, authentication devices, and the like. The system prevents counterfeiting of valuable documents through casual means by providing both physical and logical security.

Methods, apparatus, and computer program products are described for document session replay for multimodal applications. including identifying, by a multimodal browser in dependence upon a log produced by a Form Interpretation Algorithm (‘FIA’) during a previous document session with a user, a speech prompt provided by a multimodal application in the previous document session; identifying, by a multimodal browser in replay mode in dependence upon the log, a response to the prompt provided by a user of the multimodal application in the previous document session; retrieving, by the multimodal browser in dependence upon the log, an X+V page of the multimodal application associated with the speech prompt and the response; rendering, by the multimodal browser, the visual elements of the retrieved X+V page; replaying, by the multimodal browser, the speech prompt; and replaying, by a multimodal browser, the response.

In information retrieval (IR) systems with high-speed access, especially to search engines applied to the Internet and / or corporate intranet domains for retrieving accessible documents automatic text categorization techniques are used to support the presentation of search query results within high-speed network environments. An integrated, automatic and open information retrieval system (100) comprises an hybrid method based on linguistic and mathematical approaches for an automatic text categorization. It solves the problems of conventional systems by combining an automatic content recognition technique with a self-learning hierarchical scheme of indexed categories. In response to a word submitted by a requester, said system (100) retrieves documents containing that word, analyzes the documents to determine their word-pair patterns, matches the document patterns to database patterns that are related to topics, and thereby assigns topics to each document. If the retrieved documents are assigned to more than one topic, a list of the document topics is presented to the requester, and the requester designates the relevant topics. The requester is then granted access only to documents assigned to relevant topics. A knowledge database (1408) linking search terms to documents and documents to topics is established and maintained to speed future searches. Additionally, new strategies are presented to deal with different update frequencies of changed Web sites.

An advertising entity manages determinations, bidding, and / or billing for serving “generic advertisements” on a primary document. Generic ads are not for specific merchants or products; rather they lead users to a secondary document containing more specific information, product listings, and / or merchant listings. Such information and / or listings are determined to be relevant to a generic concept corresponding to the generic ad. For example, when a user selects a generic ad, they may be presented with a secondary document including product listings. If the user selects a merchant's product listing, then that merchant compensates an ad serving entity and / or a publisher of the primary document. Such management might include choosing or generating an appropriate generic advertisement creative for a potential advertising situation. A determination of whether or not to render a generic ad instead of one or more typical advertiser-managed ads may use an expected value of rendering the generic ad versus showing the advertiser-managed ad(s). The result of this determination may be reflected in a bid associated with the generic ad. Generic ads will often be useful for primary documents (e.g., Web pages) that are non-specific.

A system and method for securely storing electronic documents is provided. The system includes a client portion and a server portion and the client portion is located at a trusted location. The client portion encrypts each electronic document and produces a list of terms of interest relating to the document, which terms are also encrypted. The encrypted document and the encrypted terms are transferred to a server portion which need not be located at a trusted location. The document is stored at the server portion in a manner which allows for locating the document again via the encrypted terms and returning the encrypted document to the trusted client portion, where it can be decrypted. Attachments to documents can also be encrypted and stored at the server, as can copies of dynamic documents, such as web pages. The server portion can also have a retention manager and encryptor which is used to implement document retention and destruction policies defined by the user of the system.