Patent Document ID: 9613144
Application ID: 14210736

Base Claim:
1. A computer system comprising: at least one processor, said computer system configured for: (A) receiving entity data comprising information associated with an online retailer and including one or more of: a name associated with the online retailer, a location associated with the online retailer; one or more products offered for sale by the online retailer; one or more prices associated with the one or more products; characteristics of customers who typically purchase from the online retailer; characteristics of customers who typically purchase from competitors of the online retailer; one or more categories of products and/or services sold by the online retailer; and one or more price ranges of products typically sold by the online retailer; (B) receiving social network data comprising data associated with a user; (C) receiving a set of search terms associated with the user for use in an Internet search, wherein the set of search terms comprise one or more search terms input by the user; (D) intercepting the set of search terms prior to performance of the Internet search; (E) creating a revised set of search terms from the intercepted set of search terms based at least in part on data selected from a group consisting of: the social network data; and the entity data; and (F) initiating an Internet search based, at least in part, on the revised set of search terms.

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Claim 4:
4. The computer system of claim 1 , wherein the computer system is further configured for: (A) receiving one or more search results associated with the Internet search; and (B) transmitting said results to a client device associated with the user.