A Systematic Mapping Study on Search Engine Industry’s Patent Innovations Focused on Matching the Search Results to User Intent

Abstract

This report presents a systematic mapping study to survey patent documents in Brazilian and international databases to characterize the technical state-of-the-art in search engines under the intent matching paradigm as well as to discover the size of academia initiatives as part of the technical state-of-the-art agenda to commercial innovation ventures in the search engine industry. The goal is achieved by the identification of the search engine industry most common innovation claims concerning the intent matching paradigm and by the discussion of important issues regarding its patent application patterns, such as the search engine industry’s proficiency to churn its innovative landscape.