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

Resumo

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 in- novation ventures in the search engine industry. The goal is achieved by the identifica- tion of the search engine industry most common innovation claims concerning the in- tent 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 inno- vative landscape.