Patent ID: 7516118
Filing Date: 2009-04-07
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: displaying, to a user, a first web document received from a search engine, the first web document comprising a search engine result set; receiving in a client application in a client device an interest signal generated in response to a user action, the interest signal indicating to the client application that the user has an interest in a hyperlink displayed as part of the search engine result set in the first web document, the hyperlink referencing a second web document; automatically generating in the client application in the client device a request signal in response to the interest signal and sending the request signal to the search engine to request a text extract and implicitly derived past-user information, the text extract comprising text data previously extracted from the second web document and stored separately from the second web document, and the implicitly derived past-user information rating multiple previous viewers' interest in the second web document, the previous viewers being other than the user, and the interest of the previous viewers being implicitly derived using data at the search engine which logs measures of the previous viewers' interaction with the second web document, the measures including the previous viewers' linger time on the second web document, the previous viewers' quantity of repeat visits to the second web document, a quantity of repeat queries initiated by the previous viewers which led to the second web document, or a quantity of click-throughs by the previous viewers on the second web document; receiving the text extract and the implicitly derived past-user information in the client device in response to the request signal; and displaying the text extract and the implicitly derived past-user information to the user in association with the first web document, in response to the interest signal.