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Method and apparatus for utilizing the social usage learned from multi-user feedback to improve resource identity signifier mapping
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Inventors: Reisman, Richard;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Dharia; Rupal
Assistant Examiner: Nguyen; Quang N.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Min, Hsieh & Hack LLP
An apparatus for finding resources on a network comprises a finder server having access to: (a) a database including: (i) an index of resources available on network of interconnected computers on which a plurality of resources reside; and (ii) information regarding user feedback gathered from previous operations of the apparatus by a user and plural previous users; and (b) a learning system operable to access and learn from information contained on the database. The finder server is operable to locate, in response to entry by the user of a resource identity signifier, a single intended target resource intended by the user to uniquely correspond to the resource identity signifier, from among a plurality of resources located on the network, by: receiving a resource identity signifier from the user; accessing the database to determine, based on the information in the database, which, if any, of the indexed resources is likely to be the intended target resource; and directing a computer of the user so as to cause that computer to connect the user to the address of the resource, if any, determined as likely to be the intended target resource. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION In consideration of the above deficiencies of the prior art, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method of signifier mapping that allows a user to locate to a particular network resource, in the preferred embodiment a web page, by simply entering a signifier or alias.
Thus, the present invention is generally directed to a technique for intelligent searching or matching where a signifier is given and is to be related to a name or address of an intended target object.
Signifier, in the context of the present invention means: an identifier, referent, or synonym for the name or address of a specific resource (a target object) presumed to exist in some domain; but not necessarily a "name" or "address"--a canonical identifier that has been assigned by some authority or pre-set by some convention (names are a subset of signifiers--those which are canonical or pre-established); not necessarily a description of content or subject matter (concepts or words); an identifier that has cognitive significance to the user, and presumed communication value in identifying the intended target object to another person or intelligent agent.
In addition, this cognitive/communication value is based on a perceived relationship (meant to have minimal ambiguity) to an identifier, which might be an assigned name or a name based on common usage, but which need not be exact, as long at it serves to signify the intended target.
More generally, descriptors may possibly be considered to be signifiers, if they are intended to be unique or minimally ambiguous (e.
g.
"the company that commercialized Mosaic" or "the company that sells the ThinkPad").
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a system in which heuristic techniques are used together with user feedback to improve the accuracy of signifier mapping.
None of the many solutions to the signifier mapping problem (Netword, Centraal, Goto, etc.
) have identified learning as a valuable technique.
This may be because what naturally come to mind are techniques based on pre-defined mappings that make the use of "de jure" explicit registration
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