US 7,672,985 B2
Automated creation and delivery of database contentGeneral
US 7,672,985 B2
Automated creation and delivery of database content
Tech Center:
2100 Computer Architecture and Software
Examiner:
Leslie Wong
Art Unit:
2164 Data Bases & File Management
Agent:
Inventors:
MARC BOOKMAN; DAVID KURTZ; NIKET PATWARDHAN
Assignee:
Priority:
08/16/01
Filed:
10/30/06
Granted:
03/02/10
Expiration:
11/09/22
Abstract
A method and apparatus are disclosed which automatically build a database by automatically identifying a term of interest and building a term database with supplemental content from an assigned source for that term. A term can be selected by applying various rules. An advertiser can sponsor the term, for example, by having an advertisement window automatically pop-up on a keyword search. Content windows can be attached to the term, the content window containing information such as definitions, related products or services, sponsorship information, information from content syndicators, translations and reference works. Data objects that represent the contents of the database and templates are syndicated to remote servers running a processing engine. The processing engine uses these data objects to execute linking rules without requiring a connection to the database.
Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC)
G06G06F16/9024G06FY10S707/99943Y10S