Computer grid solutions developer United Devices has been awarded a federal patent that covers the use of grids in network site content indexing, the company announced August 23. UD said the search method is a big step forward toward getting search results yielding no dead links.
The company said they developed the technique after realizing Internet page growth rate, change rate, and proliferating rich media types couldn’t be indexed reliably and in timely fashion with conventional computing structures. They said combining grid techniques with top search algorithms could mean the most up-to-date indexes while letting all media types be included in search results.
"Consider being able to perform a search that never returns a dead link. Or performing a search on breaking news that actually returns relevant and up to date information," says UD founder/president Ed Hubbard.
"This technology will even make it possible to search video data types for specific mentions of a company or product name and find the relevant clips because there will be enough computational power to perform speech-to-text extraction of the video's audio stream,” Hubbard continued. “When Grids are coupled with cutting edge search all of this is achievable."
Software venture capital fund Constellation Ventures said the UD vision of grid computing and top search algorithms shows the ultimate search engine is still very early on in discovery and development. "This patent proves,” said Constellation managing director Virginia Turezyn, “there is a tremendous amount of innovation still to come from combining Grid computing techniques with other mainstream technologies."
UD’s own Grid MP platform gathers computing resources onto a network for workstation, cluster, and data center grids able to run broad high-performing computing applications over several industries including manufacturing and financial services.
