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H - Electricity
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H04L 12/16 (2006.01) G06F 17/30 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2311746
A method and system for searching files in the Internet includes sending signals indicating sets of files to individual client computer systems. The individual client computer systems perform searches of the sets of files and respond by sending signals representing the results of the search back to the primary or central computer system. The primary computer system can also send signals to the individual computer system indicating changes or updates in the files of interest to the users of the individual client computer systems. The sets of files are selected based on predetermined criteria including whether the files previously contained information of interest to a user of the client computer system, whether the files were recently searched, whether the files are proximate to the client computer system in the network and whether a time predicted to receive the file is more than a predetermined amount of time. Computer- executable instructions are uploaded to the client computer systems so that they can perform the search. The primary computer system includes an index of information previously contained in selected files in the network and a broker which updates the index database. The primary computer system also includes a relevance engine containing relevance criteria for users such that the relevance engine determines whether updates made to the index database satisfy relevance criteria of corresponding users, and if so, sends a signal to the corresponding users indicating the updates which satisfy their relevance criteria.
Conn Wilson Grad
Doctorow Cory Efram
Henson John Douglas
Stewart Erik Viljo
Opencola Ltd.
Steelbridge Inc.
Wilkes Robert H.
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