Overture Services, Inc.
🏢 View company profile →50Patents
2Active
50Granted
40Portfolio score
Filing activity: Aug 10, 1998 → May 22, 2006 · 2 expiring within 5 years
Most-cited patents
| Patent | Title | Area | Cited by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.