US 7,321,889 B2 | ||
Authoring and managing personalized searchable link collections | ||
Frank Smadja, Haifa (Israel); and Eran Palmon, Palo Alto, Calif. (US) | ||
Assigned to Suggestica, Inc., Fremont, Calif. (US) | ||
Filed on Sep. 09, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/222,662. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/688433, filed on Jun. 07, 2005. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/621290, filed on Oct. 22, 2004. | ||
Claims priority of provisional application 60/609215, filed on Sep. 10, 2004. | ||
Prior Publication US 2006/0069699 A1, Mar. 30, 2006 | ||
Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01) |
U.S. Cl. 707—2 [707/9] | 1 Claim |
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
defining a collection of attachments that can be viewed and searched by a corresponding group of at least one user, a user
being a searcher who has provided registration information, the corresponding group defined for the collection, each attachment
in the collection being between a topic of a defined set of topics and one or more information items of a plurality of information
items, such that the collection is defined by the topics and information items of the attachments, and by the corresponding
group,
the defining of the collection including:
accepting from a collection creator a name for the collection, the collection creator being a user,
accepting from the collection creator, or from a designate thereof, one or more searchers to be potential members of the corresponding
group; and
inviting the one or more searchers to become members of the corresponding group, wherein each topic is defined by a user for attachment to one or more information items of the plurality of information items,
the defining the topics including:
accepting from at least one user at least one topic; and
adding the topic to the set of topics, wherein the topics do not necessarily have a hierarchical structure, andwherein the topics that are attached to at least one information item are for searching by a particular searcher for one or
more information items of the plurality of information items according to search request information provided by the particular
searcher, search request information including at least one topic of the set of topics, the searching including identifying
at least one information item that has attachments to the at least one topic of the search request information.
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