US 12,111,871 B2
Search engine
John S. Shriber, New York, NY (US); and Roman Zaks, New York, NY (US)
Assigned to Newsplug, INC
Filed by NEWSPLUG, INC., New York, NY (US)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/460,110.
Application 17/460,110 is a continuation of application No. 16/247,361, filed on Jan. 14, 2019, granted, now 11,106,744.
Application 16/247,361 is a continuation of application No. 15/142,479, filed on Apr. 29, 2016, granted, now 10,180,952, issued on Jan. 15, 2019.
Application 15/142,479 is a continuation of application No. 13/420,503, filed on Mar. 14, 2012, granted, now 9,338,215, issued on May 10, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/452,595, filed on Mar. 14, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2021/0390146 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2022.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/169 (2020.01); G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G06Q 10/10 (2023.01); H04L 67/02 (2022.01); H04L 67/10 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 16/951 (2019.01) [G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 40/166 (2020.01); G06F 40/169 (2020.01); G06F 40/35 (2020.01); G06Q 10/10 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
installing, by a search engine server computer, a plug-in module associated with the search engine server computer on a first client computer, the plug-in module configured to facilitate a first user to modify a third-party website to generate a user content, the user content comprising a user rating of a web content in the third-party website;
indexing, by the search engine server computer, (i) the web content in the third-party website, (ii) the user content received from the plug-in module, and (iii) additional content received from at least one additional user that is based on the web content and comprising at least one additional user rating, the indexing being based on the user rating from the plug-in module; and
in response to a search query from a web browser of a second client computer, transmitting, by the search engine server computer, search results to the web browser of the second client computer, the search results (i) comprising the indexed web content, and (ii) ordered by a ranking based on the user rating and the at least one additional user rating.