Our company policy is aimed at protecting our intellectual property and to date we own 3 patents, which include a number of inventions in the area of:

• Data sarching, storing and processing technologies
• Meta-search technologies
• Internet-advertising technologies (new model of electronic data distribution)

Our patents, issued by the Eurasia patent authority to date are valid in the territories of Russia, Kazakhstan and 9 other countries, former USSR republics. Two out of three patents are currently under the PCT procedure in the WIPO (WO 02/065333 и WO 02/075620 applications), which means an opportunity to submit patent applications in the national phases before end of 2003 inclusive, preserving the priority date of the Eurasian patent authority. Based on the WIPO applications, the patent applications to the US PTO have already been submitted.

The first two of the patented technologies described below have been implemented in the Offliner project products.

Working offline with the online efficiency

Gives an opportunity to work with information found in the Internet without the Internet connection. The use of it allows to avoid the shortcomings of the existent systems and to reduce to zero the distinctions between the online and offline processing of information.

Working with links and links lists

New methodology of work with links and links lists, which allows to integrate the links from diverse information resources and enable further processing of lists, containing heterogeneous links. Using various logical operations on the links lists will enable optimizing the work with any information resource or application.

Metasearch

Allows not only taking into consideration all the search parameters inherent in each of the search engines, included into the meta-search list, but also broadens the search capabilities by enabling the query preprocessing. Moreover, the invention presupposes ability for a user to add new search engines for metasearch. These and other opportunities provided by this invention will allow to avoid the shortcomings of the existent meta-search systems and simplify the information search in the Internet.

Internet advertising and new way of software distribution

New solutions in the area of Internet advertising will allow to cover a principally new audience of advertising consumers and will ensure its purpose focusing. This solution allows to avoid using cookies, which have been outlawed by the Europarliament. Original technique enables showing Internet advertising offline with the online efficiency. The patent describes the new way of renting software, audio and video files and other electronic data in exchange for viewing the advertisement.

Search for documents similar in their content to the sample

Main idea of this invention is search for documents and their abstracts of similar content at the same time utilizing the preprocessing mechanism, which enables to broaden the initial queries with their semantic analogues (morphological word forms, synonyms etc.) This invention minimizes the probability of storing duplicate data in the archive systems thus avoiding reprocessing it. Additional feature of this invention is auto-classification of the data entered into the document archive. The invention is meant also for phrasal search, which accounts for space between the words and their order in the query. The preprocessing mechanism is also utilized by full-text phrasal search, which enables to find documents, containing not only the sample phrases, but also their semantic analogues.

All the patented inventions are the result of almost 10 years of work in the sphere of information technologies. They are based on a great number of seemingly simple but at the same time original ideas, many of which have been practically implemented and have shown good result. The inventions can be used for developing new software products as well as integration into various systems, related to search, processing and storing unstructured data. Some inventions are ahead of time and their practical realization could dramatically change the situation not only at the market of information search systems, but also the Internet advertising market.