If they can figure out how to cut out all the crap search results they'll win the search race when they get bought out by Yahoo (likely buyer if their software actually works).
D. A. Brown
· 2 years ago
Paul Allen's Hypertext Solutions obtained some interesting IP in the deal in which they acquired InFact from Insightful Corporation. The patents acquired from Insightful (formerly known as Mathsoft) include:
6,510,406 Inverse inference engine for high performance web search
6,757,646 Extended functionality for an inverse inference engine based web search
6,862,710 Internet navigation using soft hyperlinks
7,051,017 Inverse inference engine for high performance web search
The published patent applications acquired from Insightful include:
20030233224 Method and system for enhanced data searching
20050267871 Method and system for extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data
20070156669 Extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data
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6,510,406 Inverse inference engine for high performance web search
6,757,646 Extended functionality for an inverse inference engine based web search
6,862,710 Internet navigation using soft hyperlinks
7,051,017 Inverse inference engine for high performance web search
The published patent applications acquired from Insightful include:
20030233224 Method and system for enhanced data searching
20050267871 Method and system for extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data
20070156669 Extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data