Google, Profile Capturing, and User Intent
March 18, 2010
On March 16, 2010, Google nailed a patent for its invention “Profile Based Capture Component,” US7,680,809. On the surface, maybe not so exciting. Google wizard Steve Lawrence had a hand in this invention filed in early 2004. Don’t you admire the turnaround time? Here’s the abstract:
An indexing system in a computer system may include applications, a capture processor, a queue, a search engine, and a display processor. The indexing system captures events of user interactions with the applications. Events are queued and if indexable, indexed and stored for user access through the search engine. Capture components in the capture processor can include a keyboard capture component that processes user keystrokes to determine events. A display capture component captures event data from windows associated with the applications. Display event data can be captured on a polling schedule or based on state changes of window elements. To determine target applications and window applications of interest application profiles and window profiles can be used.
Google’s predictive methods revealed.
Stephen E Arnold, March 18, 2010
A freebie. I will report non payment to the USPTO which recently rejected a fax because it was “backwards”. The other pages, as I understand the event, were not backwards.
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