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Overture Services, Inc.

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50Patents
2Active
50Granted
40Portfolio score

Filing activity: Aug 10, 1998 → May 22, 2006 · 2 expiring within 5 years

Most-cited patents

PatentTitleAreaCited byStatus
US6907566B1 Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 1,033 Expired
US7373599B2 Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 790 Expired
US7100111B2 Method and system for optimum placement of advertisements on a webpage Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 765 Expired
US6704727B1 Method and system for generating a set of search terms Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 364 Expired
US6947930B2 Systems and methods for interactive search query refinement Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 335 Expired
US6876997B1 Method and apparatus for indentifying related searches in a database search system Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 246 Expired
US6826572B2 System and method allowing advertisers to manage search listings in a pay for placement search system using grouping Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 219 Expired
US6665837B1 Method for identifying related pages in a hyperlinked database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 211 Expired
US6871202B2 Method and apparatus for ranking web page search results Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 180 Expired
US6778975B1 Search engine for selecting targeted messages Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 175 Expired
US6775831B1 System and method for rapid completion of data processing tasks distributed on a network Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 170 Expired
US6978263B2 System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 166 Expired
US6983272B2 System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 151 Expired
US7093012B2 System and method for enhancing crawling by extracting requests for webpages in an information flow Physics 146 Expired
US6701317B1 Web page connectivity server construction Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 145 Expired
US7197497B2 Method and apparatus for machine learning a document relevance function Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 137 Expired
US6799298B2 Technique for locating an item of interest within a stored representation of data Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 119 Expired
US6983280B2 Automated processing of appropriateness determination of content for search listings in wide area network searches Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 113 Expired
US7225182B2 Recommending search terms using collaborative filtering and web spidering Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 90 Expired
US7225184B2 Disambiguation of search phrases using interpretation clusters Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 87 Expired
US7092901B2 System and method for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 87 Expired
US7231395B2 Method and apparatus for categorizing and presenting documents of a distributed database Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 86 Expired
US7035812B2 System and method for enabling multi-element bidding for influencing a position on a search result list generated by a computer network search engine Physics 75 Expired
US7065500B2 Automatic advertiser notification for a system for providing place and price protection in a search result list generated by a computer network search engine Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies 70 Expired
US7231358B2 Automatic flight management in an online marketplace Physics 62 Expired

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Counts and citation impact are objective bibliographic measures.