Patent ID: 7734631
Filing Date: 2010-06-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-readable storage medium having computer executable instructions encoded thereon, the computer executable instructions programmed to, upon execution by at least one processor, configure a computer implemented system for associating information, the computer-readable storage medium comprising: an association module executing on the at least one processor that analyzes, using a term frequency-inverse document frequency technique, content of a first piece of information associated with a first network service, comprising a web page service that provides at least one web page, to create a summary of the content of the first piece of information, the summary comprising anchoring information, and uses the anchoring information to associate the first piece of information with a second piece of information associated with a second network service, comprising one of a note service, a news feed service, a chat session service, a notification-based chat session service, an instant message service, or an advertisement service, the anchoring information includes one or more of a domain name, a fully qualified uniform resource locator, a partially-qualified uniform resource locator, a relative uniform resource locator of a Web resource, or at least one keyword in the content associated with the first piece of information; wherein the first niece of information comprises at least one of the at least one web page or one of a text document, a blog entry, a wiki, an image file, an audio file, or a multimedia file, associated with the at least one web page; wherein the second niece of information comprises at least one of a note, an intranet page, a text document, an image file, an audio file, a search term, a search result, information related to an interface for a search engine, an RSS feed, a news feed, information related to a chat session, information related to notification-based chat session, an instant message, a tag, a rating, an in-link, an out-link, or an advertisement; a privacy module that protects personal information of a user of the association module, by at least obscuring a request of the user; a ranking and filtering module that employs one or more classifiers to assign one or more ranks to a plurality of nieces of information, wherein the second niece of information is associated with the first niece of information based on an assigned rank; and a rendering module that presents the second piece of information for use.