http://mashable.disqus.com/Internet and Technology News - Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web.enTue, 07 Aug 2007 10:18:42 -0000http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/hypertext-solutions/#comment-5970778<p>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:</p><p>6,510,406 Inverse inference engine for high performance web search</p><p>6,757,646 Extended functionality for an inverse inference engine based web search</p><p>6,862,710 Internet navigation using soft hyperlinks</p><p>7,051,017 Inverse inference engine for high performance web search</p><p>The published patent applications acquired from Insightful include:</p><p>20030233224 Method and system for enhanced data searching</p><p>20050267871 Method and system for extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data</p><p>20070156669 Extending keyword searching to syntactically and semantically annotated data</p>D. A. BrownTue, 07 Aug 2007 10:18:42 -0000http://mashable.com/2007/08/06/hypertext-solutions/#comment-5970777<p>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).</p>Dave ButlerMon, 06 Aug 2007 22:49:13 -0000