Impromptu Shared Information Spaces

October 28, 2009

The USPTO published US 7,610,287, “System and Method for Impromptu Shared Communication Spaces”, filed in 2005, an invention by Jeff Dean, Georges Harik and Obeka Tallis Brown Bakin. This is a pretty significant invention in my opinion. The system and method works around some interesting technical precursors, yet gives Google a grasp on an important advance in data management. I discuss some of the invention’s implications in Google: The Digital Gutenberg, and I wanted to call to your attention this open source publication. The description of the invention is:

Communications between entities who may share common interests. For entities determined to be sharing common interests (e.g., searching using the same terms or topics, browsing a page, a site or a groups of topically related sites), options for communication among the entities are provided. For example, a chat room may be dynamically created for persons who are currently searching or browsing the same or related information. As another example, a “homepage” may be created for each query and contain various types of information related to the query. A permission module controls which entities may participate, what types of information (and from what sources) an entity can (or desires to) receive, what types of information the entity may (or desires to) share.

I anticipate that in a short time, various Google mavens and pundits will explain that this invention is related to the fun, friendly world of Google that makes up most of the services now offered from the GOOG. In my opinion, this invention moves into a new “space”. That’s as far as I will go in this free Web log. Maybe someone will be able to find search engine optimization gems in this invention. I don’t, but I am an addled goose.

Stephen Arnold, October 28, 2009

Google did not send me so much as a mouse pad for flagging this open source document as important. Spoil sports.

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Database, Google, News, Real time search, Technology, Text processing

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Stephen E. Arnold monitors search, content processing, text mining and related topics from his high-tech nerve center in rural Kentucky. He tries to winnow the goose feathers from the giblets. He works with colleagues worldwide to make this Web log useful to those who want to go "beyond search". Contact him at sa [at] arnoldit.com. His Web site with additional information about search is arnoldit.com.