Patent ID: 8548970
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a target computer system comprising: receiving a compound result URL at a target computer system, the compound result URL including a target page identifier and a query; in response to receiving the compound result URL, utilizing the target page identifier to identify a target page on the target computer system; automatically executing a call script causing receipt of a plurality of suggestions based on the query, each suggestion including a text of the suggestion and a suggestion URL; automatically executing a placement script that places the text of each suggestion on the target page, the text of each suggestion having an associated suggestion URL so that selection of the text of the suggestion causes redirection of a user computer based on the suggestion URL, wherein each suggestion URL is a compound suggestion URL that includes a search engine identifier indicating a search engine system to receive the compound suggestion URL and the text of the suggestion enables the search engine system to extract a plurality of answers from a database communicatively coupled to the search engine, and wherein the compound suggestion URL includes a target computer system identifier of the target computer system for use by the search engine system to credit an account corresponding to the target computer system identifier; and transmitting a user computer system identifier of the user computer system with the compound URL to the search engine transmitting the answers to the user computer system associated with the user computer system identifier.