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Definitions

• search portals often contain financial key figures, accounting information, credit information and in some cases financial analysis and ownership in other companies, as well as information about the board. In some cases the board members roles in other companies are comprised.
• These services are often very static in the sense that you get exactly what you search for. There is a problem that such services often lack vital information or suggestions for other appropriate information the user might want to explore.
• the search results lack "intelligence".
• Search for companies with a defined set of properties can be done by searches using Google, Bing or others, using keywords.
• These services comprise an advantage compared to catalogue services in that it is possible to search for more details because the services have indexed the company web sites.
• These services are relatively static since they only provide hits on web pages containing the keyword. Some of the services also provide hits although not all the keywords are found in the hit. There is a problem with these services that the resulting search provides information only for search results providing some or all of the predefined keywords.
• the invention provides a method and system for finding new business opportunities based on previous search criteria, search results, and search result categorization.
• the invention will provide information related to potential new customers, prospects, partners, competitors, business opportunities, and other based on the users search profile and historical search pattern.
• a method and system which provides a searching service with built-in intelligence.
• the method and system of the invention provides a GUI, Dashboard, for the user where the search results are presented, and wherein the user can categorize the content presented.
• the categorization of the search results then provides intelligence to the method and system of the invention for later searches.
• a user of the present invention is typically, but not limited to, companies of any size or type, employees, owners, board members, consultants or others.
• the Dashboard of the invention can be made available for users on a communication device through one of, but not limited to: a network (e.g. internet) portal, mobile user interface, mobile application, tablets, «phablets» or other network connected devices.
• a network e.g. internet
• the communication device can be one of, but not limited to: a personal computer, a mobile telephone, a smart phone, a tablet, a television system, or other.
• the invention provides a solution to the problems discussed above, and is defined by the accompanying patent claims.
• the invention may also comprise also network service, which may be a cloud service, residing with a network/cloud service provider.
• the network service may comprise the storage resources required by the system of the invention, as well as the searching services required by the system of the invention.
• Fig 1 is a block diagram overview of the system
• Fig 2 is a flow chart of the method
• the invention provides a method and system to find new business opportunities based on previous search activities which the user has categorized by allocating a categorization identifier to a company hit.
• the invention will help a user to find new customers, partners, competitors or other business opportunities in an intelligent semi-automatic way.
• the invention comprises a method and system for providing personalized intelligent content to a search tool and content data base based on previous usage, the method and system also providing a personal «Dashboard» comprising automatically updated content.
• the invention store and use previous search criteria and results which have been categorized as relevant for the user by the user himself.
• a categorization identifier is associated with each relevant search result, and used as input to an advanced search and matching operation which provides an expanded search result comprising other related results such as companies, which is presented to the user via the Dashboard of the invention.
• the search an matching operation may use the categorization identifier as a primary selecting criteria, finding previously categorized companies with similar identifier, or the identifier itself may be matched with new company information available in the search base, or other search criteria other than the identifier may be chosen as search filter by the user.
• Fig 1 provides a block diagram of the various components of the system of the invention, the system comprising a user 10, which can be one of, but not limited to, an employee, an owner, a consultant, a partner, or other relation, of a company, or a person.
• the system provides a searching interface 20 in the form of a Dashboard on a communication device, where the search interface 20 lets the user access and search a database comprising all collected company information from various sources such as financial registers, company webpages, news, blogs, forum, social network or other related sources which are available on the network (internet).
• This search is stored and presented to the user in the block result 30 , the search result comprising companies matching the search criteria provided by the user.
• the search result 30 may also apart from being a company, be one of, but not limited to a list of companies, list of companies filtered on for example financial parameters such as turnover, result, industry, location, no. of employees, growth, or other typical business related parameters.
• the user will then categorize the companies in the search result, and store them as different categories of companies, or user relation to the company, for example, but not limited to: customer 50 , prospect 60 , competitor 70 , owner 80 , employee 90 , partner 100 , favorite 110 or other.
• the system Based on the categorization made by the user the system provides an advanced search and matching operation 120 which based on criteria defined by the user in the Dashboard will search and present other companies based on the similar properties, category and other parameters of the company selected by the user. These similar companies will automatically be provided by the same company database and be sorted based on the user's categorization (130).
• Dashboard for example in, but not limited to, a list with customers which are similar to your existing customers and a list over potential alternative competitors. This will be shown in a user's personalized Dashboard.
• Other information will also be displayed in the Dashboard related to a, from the displayed list chosen, company, such as, but not limited to: updated company information such as news, finance, contacts or other company updates.
• the advanced search and matching 120 operation may perform the searches using vector search criteria, statistics, semantic, keywords, or other relevant search technology.
• the Dashboard 140 may comprise one or more of the users business relations comprising one or more of , but not limited to: relevant companies, persons, news, social updates, sentiments, trends, markets, products or other relevant business information.
• the Dashboard 140 can be can be personalized both in amount of information, type of information, location, language, colors, layout, font, style, placement/position or other personalized content method.
• the Dashboard 140 can be send out warnings about new content in the form of email, SMS , MMS or other forms of messages to a user or a group of users. saas
• the personal Dashboard (140) may be shared with others users.
• the invention can be applied on several platforms and solution as Software as a Service(Saas), as a standard portal on internet, as a user application for mobile phones, Tablets, Phablets, thin clients, virtual machines, as a local installed solution, as a cloud based service or any other software based related solution.
• Saas Software as a Service
• Fig. 2 provides flow chart visualizing an embodiment of a method of the invention.
• the method of the invention provides a search operation where the user specifies the search criteria in the
• the search result is presented in the Dashboard.
• the presentation may be customized for the individual user.
• the user When the search result is presented in the Dashboard, the user must make a decision 210 whether to "follow" a company or not. If the user wants to follow 210, the user must define or categorize which relation this company 220 has to the user. Based on the company parameters of the chosen company, the system of the invention fetches similar companies from the company database and presents 230 them to the user in the Dashboard. Once a company in the search result has been categorized, and if the user choose to follow 240 the company, similar companies will be organized and presented 250 in the Dashboard as possible new customers, prospects, competitors, owners, partners or other relations.
• parameters linked to each search and search result may be, but not limited to: time (of search, or when company information was updated), size, industry, market, news or other.
• the parameters can also be used to define the manner of how the data are presented on the Dashboard.
• the invention may also provide a "follow as" 40 feature which can be defined as a relation 50-110 or as user behavior. If the user, one or more times, has searched and viewed a type of company, or read several news about a certain business or market, this search pattern, which may comprise interest, location, financial filtering parameters, industries or other relevant company information is stored in a user profile of the user or the user's personalized Dashboard.
• the search pattern may then be used to form the basis of a further search automatically generated by the system which may provide a search result comprising similar other companies.
• the invention may also comprise a network service, which may be a cloud service, residing with a network/cloud service provider.
• the network service may comprise the storage resources required by the system of the invention, as well as the searching services required by the system of the invention.
• Such network service will then also provide communication with the user via the connected communication device and the Dashboard, as well as performing the searches towards the internet or other type of network defined by the user in the Dashboard.
• the system may be comprising: a client device, comprising a network communication module, a Graphical User Interface, and a Dashboard module, a network service, comprising a database storage module, a communication module, a search module, and a search and matching module, and database access to one or more of, but not limited to: catalogue services, financial information systems, search engines, company web pages.
• a client device comprising a network communication module, a Graphical User Interface, and a Dashboard module
• a network service comprising a database storage module, a communication module, a search module, and a search and matching module, and database access to one or more of, but not limited to: catalogue services, financial information systems, search engines, company web pages.
• the communication module facilitates a two way communication between the client device and the network service.
• the Dashboard module comprises an input module for receiving search criteria, and/or categorization identifier from a user of the system.
• the Dashboard module comprises an input module for receiving search criteria, and/or categorization identifier from a user of the system.
• the network service is a cloud service.
• the search module comprise a result module for presenting search results, the search results comprising information about one of the following, but not limited to: a company, a list of companies, a list of companies filtered on various financial parameters as for example: turnover, result, industry, location, no. of employees, growth, or other typical business related parameters.
• the search module comprise a "follow as" (40 ) module where the categorization identifier may be defined as one of a, but not limited to, relation (50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110) or as search pattern, search pattern being defined by the user behavior if the user, one or more times, has searched and viewed a type of company, or read several news about a certain business or market, and may be comprised by one or more, but not limited to: interest, location, financial filtering parameters, industries or other relevant company information.
• relation 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110
• search pattern being defined by the user behavior if the user, one or more times, has searched and viewed a type of company, or read several news about a certain business or market, and may be comprised by one or more, but not limited to: interest, location, financial filtering parameters, industries or other relevant company information.
• the database storage module comprise company information being categorized by the user's categorization identifier, the company information originating from initial searches or by automatic searches performed by the system and categorized by the user.
• the network service and/or client device may be distributed over several platforms, and the network service comprise the services as Software as a Service, SaaS, as a portal on internet, as a local installed solution, as a cloud based service or any other software based related solution and the client device as an application for mobile phones, Tablets, Phablets, thin clients, or virtual machines.
• the Dashboard can be accessed by more than one user.
• the method for providing a personalized intelligent content data base to a user using the system defined in any of the previous system embodiments comprising performing the following steps: a) the user defining a search criteria b) searching (20) a company database; c) compiling a searching result (30) comprising one of, but not limited to: a company, a list of companies, a list of companies filtered on for example financial parameters such as turnover, result, industry, location, no. of employees, growth, or other typical business related parameters d) the user choosing to follow selected companies as (40) a relation (50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110);
• the relations (50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 110) a company may be one of, but not limited to, is: customer(50), prospect(60), competitor(70), owner(80), employee(90), partner(lOO), or favorite(HO).
• the user (10) can be one of, but not limited to: company, employee, owner, board member, consultant or other individual or organization.
• the user search pattern or user behavior where for example the user has viewed a type of company several times, or read several news about a certain business or market, the search pattern then indicating interest, location, financial filtering parameters, industries or other relevant company information, form the basis of a search pattern which provides further search criteria for the search and matching operation enabling it find similar other companies.
• the advanced search and matching (120) operation performs the searches using vector search criteria, statistics, semantic, keywords, or other relevant search technology.
• the Dashboard (140) displays one or more of, but not limited to: the user's relation with displayed companies, persons, news, social updates, sentiments, trends, markets, products or other relevant business information.
• the dashboard (140) can be can be personalized both in amount of information, type of information, location, language, colors, layout, font, style, placement/position or other personalized content method.
• the Dashboard (140) can be sending out warnings about new content in the form of one or more of email, SMS , MMS or other forms of messages.

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