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20100082657 | GENERATING SYNONYMS BASED ON QUERY LOG DATA - An approach is described for generating synonyms to supplement at least one information item, such as, in one case, a set of related items. The approach can involve an expansion phase, a clean-up phase, and a reduction phase. In the expansion phase, the approach identifies, for each related item, a set of initial synonym candidates. In the clean-up phase, the approach removes noise from the set of initial synonym candidates (if such noise exists), to provide a set of filtered synonym candidate items. In the reduction phase, the approach ranks and applies a threshold (or thresholds) to the set of filtered synonym candidate items, to generate, for each information item, a set of selected synonyms. The approach uses query log data as at various points in its operation. The selected synonyms can be used to improve the effectiveness of user searches. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082658 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURFACING CONTEXTUALLY RELEVANT INFORMATION - The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for providing contextually relevant suggestions and content in response to user queries. The method according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises receiving a request from a user and retrieving refinement data associated with the request. The method identifies one or more contextually relevant refinement items on the basis of the retrieved refinement data and provides the refinement data and a plurality of results associated with the request. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082659 | Information Module Recommendation - A method of information module recommendation is provided. The method comprises collecting a first set of user information associated with a user from an electronic device that is associated with the user, and identifying an information topic associated with the first set of user information. The method further comprises accessing a module database comprising a plurality of information modules, identifying an information module from among the plurality of information modules configured to deliver information pertaining to the information topic, and recommending the information module to the user. | 04-01-2010 |
20100169356 | Method and System for Negative Keyword Recommendations - Effectiveness of keywords is determined. The keywords are classified to include effective keywords and ineffective keywords. An exclusion keyword list based on ineffective keywords is created. The ineffective keywords that conflict with the effective keywords are removed from the exclusion keyword list. Negative keywords are determined. | 07-01-2010 |
20100205202 | Visual and Textual Query Suggestion - Techniques described herein enable better understanding of the intent of a user that submits a particular search query. These techniques receive a search request for images associated with a particular query. In response, the techniques determine images that are associated with the query, as well as other keywords that are associated with these images. The techniques then cluster, for each set of images associated with one of these keywords, the set of images into multiple groups. The techniques then rank the images and determine a representative image of each cluster. Finally, the tools suggest, to the user that submitted the query, to refine the search based on user selection of a keyword and a representative image. Thus, the techniques better understand the user's intent by allowing the user to refine the search based on another keyword and based on an image on which the user wishes to focus the search. | 08-12-2010 |
20100223275 | Interactive Intelligent Searching with Executable Suggestions - A method, system, and computer program product for interactive searching with executable suggestions provides a search engine and data management technology that determine what a user is looking for, analyze the data in a database, and present immediately useful suggestions for finding the right information. Executable suggestions are presented that enable a user to further narrow or broaden a search intelligently and adaptively in real-time. Each executable suggestion describes a search and corresponding search criteria and provides information on the actual search results a user will obtain according to this search criteria. In one embodiment of the present invention, a system has a suggestion engine and one or more suggestion spaces. | 09-02-2010 |
20100228763 | FINDING RELATED SEARCH TERMS - An apparatus and a method for suggesting search terms is described. A server receives a search term from a client and generating one or more suggested search terms to the client based on an analysis of temporal data between prior search terms in relation to the search term. The server sends the suggested search terms to the client. | 09-09-2010 |
20100241649 | Data Access Using Multilevel Selectors And Contextual Assistance - A method and system to derive association-explicit metadata, about a target data collection, that is useful to facilitate access and searching of the data collection, regardless of the organizational structure of the collection. The metadata may be generated to comprise DetailSelectors describing lowest level data elements; groups thereof that provide context for member DetailSelectors, plus Boolean properties for queries using such Selectors, and association links to higher-level GlueSelectors that comprise such DetailSelectors, as well as association links to yet higher levels, eventually to Items, which are of a level greater than the highest level GlueSelector, reference a predetermined collection of data in the target collection, and comprise suitable matches for all of the DetailSelectors represented. Such metadata may be used to present choices to a user for terms to add to a query while ensuring suitable match by information in at least one Item. Information about Groups of DetailSelectors and Groups of GlueSelectors, as well as information about content of a GlueSelector, may be presented to a user to reduce in the query and in the data thus located. | 09-23-2010 |
20100299344 | METHOD OF SUGGESTING ACCOMPANIMENT TRACKS FOR SYNCHRONISED RENDERING WITH A CONTENT DATA ITEM - A method of suggesting accompaniment tracks for synchronised rendering with a content data item includes obtaining data descriptive of the content data item. A database query based at least partly on the data descriptive of the content data item to identify auxiliary content items to a user is resolved. The database (14;28) includes records, each configured to associate descriptive data with an auxiliary content data item for forming an accompaniment track. Data representative of a selection of an auxiliary content data item is received in association with the query, and a database record for the selected auxiliary content data item is caused to be amended to reflect the selection in association with at least part of the descriptive data included in the query. | 11-25-2010 |
20100306229 | Systems and Methods for Improved Web Searching - Systems and methods are provided for improved web searching. In one implementation, suggested search queries are provided based on previous search queries and click data. A weighted bi-partite graph or index may be used to identify related search queries based on overlapping clicked URLs. According to a method, query-click log data of a search engine is processed to generate sets of suggested search queries, data corresponding to each suggested search query, and a set of clicked URLs related to each suggested search query. Additionally, or independently, methods may be provided for contextually correcting spelling errors within sets of suggested search queries using a contextual algorithm, and/or identifying and discarding sets of suggested search queries and URLs that lead to restricted material, such as restricted content and related URLs. | 12-02-2010 |
20110040777 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CAUSING A BROWSER TO PRELOAD WEB PAGE COMPONENTS - Disclosed is a server computer that receives, over a network from a computing device, a request for a search suggestion related to a search query that is input into a search term entry area displayed by a web browser executing on the computing device. In response to receiving the request, the server computer transmits over the network to the computing device, instructions for the computing device to display a search suggestion related to the search query, the search suggestion corresponding to a search results web page. The instructions further cause the computing device to store, in a memory of the computing device, a web page component associated with the search results web page without causing the computing device to visibly display the web page component during display of the search suggestion. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040778 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR DYNAMICALLY DISPLAYING SEARCH SUGGESTIONS - In one embodiment, an original search input entered by a user is detected. An excluded term is deleted from the original search input to create a modified search input. The modified search input is matched against a plurality of stored terms. In response to there being a match between the modified search input and one or more of the plurality of stored terms, a suggestion of a search term to replace the original search input is displayed, based on the match between the modified search input and one or more stored terms. In response to there not being a match between the modified search input and one or more of the plurality of stored terms, a suggestion of a search term to replace the original search input is displayed, based on a match between the original search input and one or more of the plurality of stored terms. | 02-17-2011 |
20110040779 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TAGGING IMAGES BASED ON POSITIONAL INFORMATION - A system and method for suggesting keywords for tagging a digital image are provided. In general, a requesting node is communicatively coupled to a keyword service via a network. The requesting node sends a request to the keyword service requesting suggested keywords for a digital image. The request includes information relating to the digital image such as positional information. Based on the information, the keyword service generates a list of suggested keywords and provides the list of suggested keywords to the requesting node. At the requesting node, the list of suggested keywords is displayed to a user, and the user selects one or more of the suggested keywords for tagging the digital image. | 02-17-2011 |
20110093488 | DYNAMIC SEARCH SUGGESTION AND CATEGORY SPECIFIC COMPLETION - Methods and systems for providing dynamic and category specific search suggestions are provided. According to one embodiment, a partial search query entered by a user can be used to determine a set of relevant search queries, which can be displayed as search suggestions within a search query suggestion window. Each query in the list can be associated with at least one specific category. According to various embodiments, the set of relevant queries and associated categories are dynamically updated as the user modifies the partial search query. Furthermore, each category is selectable by the user such that a detailed list of items associated only with the selected category can be displayed to the user. | 04-21-2011 |
20110106831 | RECOMMENDING QUERIES WHEN SEARCHING AGAINST KEYWORDS - A query including one or more current search terms is received from a user and executed against a target database. When the query yields a number of results less than a defined search threshold (a.k.a. an “unsuccessful” search), the current search terms are compared with an associations database. The associations database includes associations between search terms in previously-executed queries that yielded less than a threshold number of results and replacement search terms that were substituted to generate a successful query yielding at least the threshold number of results. Upon finding a match between one or more of the search terms and the current search terms, the associations between the search terms and the replacement search terms are used to identify suggested replacement search terms and present them to the user. | 05-05-2011 |
20110119286 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING A CONDITION BUILDER INTERFACE - An apparatus and method for providing a user interface through which a user may generate a conditional expression are provided. The user interface provides guidance to a user as to the proper parts of the conditional expression to include in the conditional expression as the user constructs the conditional expression. Thus, as the user completes parts of the conditional expression, the guidance that is offered is updated based on the current context of the conditional expression. This guidance may include listings of variables, attributes and/or functions that are most appropriate to be entered next in the conditional expression, help text, and the like. | 05-19-2011 |
20110137927 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY INCORPORATING HYPOTHETICAL CONTEXT INFORMATION INTO RECOMMENDATION QUERIES - A system facilitates automatically determining the hypothetical context information or the distribution of hypothetical contexts. During operation, the system receives a request from a user for one or more recommendations. The system also receives a current context substantially associated with the request. The system then determines a hypothetical context for the request, wherein the hypothetical context may be determined by considering several sources of information, including but not limited to the current context, past contexts, and relationships between the current context and past contexts. Next, the system determines one or more recommendations for the user based on the hypothetical context. Finally, the system returns the one or more recommendations to the user. | 06-09-2011 |
20110167077 | LOCATION AWARE SEARCH PAGE ELEMENTS - User locality information can be used to improve various aspects of search results pages. Queries can be suggested based on the user location while excluding common query suggestions that involve an unrelated geographic entity. Deeplinks can also be modified to include location based suggestions. Additionally, results for specialized searches such as travel searches can be improved by employing user locality information. | 07-07-2011 |
20110173217 | LOCALITY-SENSITIVE SEARCH SUGGESTIONS - Techniques are described herein for providing locality-sensitive search suggestions. When users issue search queries, the localities of the users who issue those search queries are associated with the search queries. The users may be grouped into populations, such that each population has a locality that corresponds to the localities of the users in that population. The issuances of the search queries induce a distribution of interest with respect to the issued search queries among the populations. A subset (e.g., one or more) of the issued search queries is suggested to a user who provides a search query (e.g., a preliminary search query or an issued search query), which is deemed to be relevant to the subset of the issued search queries, based on the distribution of interest. | 07-14-2011 |
20110191363 | EMBEDDED USER EXPERIENCE IN SEARCH RESULT CONTENT - Internet search queries are a powerful tool for users to discover and interact with internet content. In response to submitting a user search query, the user may be presented with search result content comprising links and descriptions of websites, images, and/or other information relevant to the user search query. Unfortunately, current search engines and/or websites do not embed user experience data (e.g., hyperlinks to additional queries, images, pop-ups, etc.) within the search result content based upon user intent. Accordingly, one or more systems and/or techniques for embedding user experience data in search result content are disclosed herein. Search result content may be received and terms (e.g., text or other data) within the search result content may be tagged based upon a user intent. User experience data may be embedded within the tagged terms. The search result content with the embedded user experience data may be presented to the user. | 08-04-2011 |
20110191364 | INFORMATION SEARCH SYSTEM WITH REAL-TIME FEEDBACK - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing live search suggestions. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a suggested query term by a client device, initiating a live query to obtain live content relating to the suggested query term responsive to obtaining the suggested query term, obtaining the live content, and displaying the live content on a user interface of the client device | 08-04-2011 |
20110246497 | USER TO USER RECOMMENDER - Disclosed are embodiments of systems and methods for recommending relevant users to other users in a user community. In one implementation of such a method, two different sets of data are considered: a) music (or other items) that users have been listening to (or otherwise engaging), and b) music (or other items) recommendations that users have been given. In some embodiments, pre-computation methods allow the system to efficiently compare item sets and recommended item sets among the users in the community. Such comparisons may also comprise metrics that the system can use to figure out which users should be recommended for a given target user. | 10-06-2011 |
20110264681 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING SEARCHES IN A MULTI-TENANT DATABASE ENVIRONMENT - Techniques for searching in a multitenant database environment. A graphical user interface is provided that includes a search functionality for searching a database within a multitenant database environment. The multitenant environment includes data for multiple client entities, each identified by a tenant identifier (ID) having one of one or more associated users. Users of the client identities can only access data identified by their tenant ID. The multitenant environment is at least a hosted database provided by an entity separate from the client entities, and provides on-demand database service to the client entities. Suggested search results are provided in response to user-generated search query input. The suggested search results are based on monitored usage patterns corresponding to a user and are refined in response to subsequent user-generated search query input. Search results are provided based on the user-generated search query input and/or a user selection from the suggested search results. | 10-27-2011 |
20110270864 | COMPARISONS BETWEEN ENTITIES OF A PARTICULAR TYPE - Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness with which entities or entities may be compared and contrasted across one or more dimensions. Some embodiments present on a user interface (UI) a small, visually navigable collection of entities, from which the user may select a “focus” entity that may then be compared with other entities of interest. The UI may employ a visual organization scheme that organizes information on entities according to one or more dimensions, which may be predefined and/or configurable. Embodiments may facilitate rapid cognition of the manner in which information is presented and organized, and enable a user to quickly and easily discern dissimilarities and/or similarities between the focus entity and one or more other selected entities. | 11-03-2011 |
20110276582 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A JOB AND REFERRAL RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - Systems and methods for registering members in a talent management platform, arranging the members in a system network, obtaining profile information from external networks associated with the members, listing open positions, and automatically generating referrals for the open positions using the profile information are described herein. | 11-10-2011 |
20110314039 | Media Item Recommendation - Media item recommendation is described. In one example, a statistical model of media consumption is applied to media session consumption data from a community of users to infer parameters of the model. The model comprises a first probability distribution for each user defining a likelihood of the user having a latent characteristic for a session, and a second probability distribution for each latent characteristic defining a likelihood of a user selecting a media item given the latent characteristic. In another example, the inferred parameters are provided to a recommendation engine arranged to recommend media items. The recommendation engine uses the model with inferred parameters and data describing media items newly consumed by a user to infer a current latent characteristic for a current session of the user, and uses them to generate recommended media items for the user in the current session based on the current latent characteristic. | 12-22-2011 |
20110314040 | METHOD OF RECOMMENDING INFORMATION, SYSTEM THEREOF, AND SERVER - Provided is an information recommendation system capable of recommending an unexpected item which a user is interested in but cannot assume easily. A server gives one or more times of initial recommendations of recommending information by a means of a user profile and a behavior history, and narrows down second recommended items to recommend next by using not only information relating to items having responses but also information relating to items having no response together. In narrowing down, the items are arranged by means of an item arrangement program by using the results of the initial recommendations, and it is identified depending on similarity by means of a boundary calculation program where the boundary between user's interest and no interest is positioned in all the items. Then, it is identified where items not recommended yet are positioned in user's interest/no interest the areas, and items in the vicinity of the boundary between the interest and no interest are determined as the second recommended items which are not uninterested and maximize unexpectedness. | 12-22-2011 |
20110320470 | GENERATING AND PRESENTING A SUGGESTED SEARCH QUERY - The present invention is directed to presenting a suggested search query. Responsive to receiving a user-devised search parameter, a suggested search query is identified. The user-devised search parameter might have been previously received by a search system, or alternatively, might be a unique query that has not been previously received. A suggested search query might be generated using various techniques, such as by applying an n-gram language model. A classification of the suggested search query is determined, and the suggested search query is presented together with a visual indicator, which signifies the classification. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320471 | Movie Recommendation System and Movie Recommendation Method - There is provided a movie recommendation system, including: a scene metadata obtaining module for obtaining metadata which contains keywords associated with scenes, and time axis information indicating times at which the keywords appear, the scenes included in a movie content; a movie content information obtaining module for obtaining information of a movie content to be reproduced by a user; a contents preference information obtaining module for obtaining contents preference information, which is generated by assigning preference of the user to the keywords that are contained in the obtained metadata, based on the obtained information of the movie content; and a scene recommendation module for outputting at least one keyword preferred by the user from among the keywords contained in the movie content, based on the obtained contents preference information, in association with a scene recommended to the user. | 12-29-2011 |
20110320472 | COMPLEX QUERY HANDLING - Processing a query for a database includes: receiving a portion of a query from a client device in a server implemented by at least one processor, the portion of the query comprising an incomplete component; determining that the incomplete component is one of multiple predefined types with the server; providing the incomplete component to an auto-complete function specific to the determined type of the incomplete component; receiving in the server a suggestion for completing the query from the auto-complete function, the suggestion being specific to the type of the incomplete component; and providing the suggestion from the server to the client device. | 12-29-2011 |
20120016898 | Method and System for URL Autocompletion using Ranked Results - A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query's frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requestors have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user's entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings. | 01-19-2012 |
20120023120 | PREDICTIVE QUERY SUGGESTION CACHING - Methods, systems, an apparatus, and computer program products, for pre-caching query suggestions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving from a client device a request for a search resource; providing to the client device in response to the request the search resource, the search resource including: first instructions that cause the client device to generate a search interface that includes a first query input field; initial query suggestions; second instructions that cause the client device to: store the initial query suggestions in a suggestion store on the client device; compare query characters input in the first query input field to the query suggestions stored in the suggestion store; select query suggestions that match the query characters input in the first query input field based on the comparison; and display the selected query suggestions as query suggestions for the query characters input into the first query input field. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023121 | Interactive Intelligent Searching with Executable Suggestions - A method, system, and computer program product for interactive searching with executable suggestions provides a search engine and data management technology that determine what a user is looking for, analyze the data in a database, and present immediately useful suggestions for finding the right information. Executable suggestions are presented that enable a user to further narrow or broaden a search intelligently and adaptively in real-time. Each executable suggestion describes a search and corresponding search criteria and provides information on the actual search results a user will obtain according to this search criteria. In one embodiment of the present invention, a system has a suggestion engine and one or more suggestion spaces. | 01-26-2012 |
20120023122 | USER-DIRECTED PRODUCT RECOMMENDATIONS - A facility for generating item recommendations is described. In one embodiment, the facility displays a plurality of item indications each indicating an item. The facility then receives user input selecting one or more of the displayed item indications, and selects as seed items the items indicated by the selected item indications. The facility then uses the selected seed items to generate a list of recommended items, and displays the generated list of recommended items. | 01-26-2012 |
20120030227 | SYSTEM OF PROVIDING SUGGESTIONS BASED ON ACCESSIBLE AND CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION - A system and method for offering suggestions to a user of a mobile computing device based on information relevant to the user and a context data. The mobile computing device has access to lists of data associated with the user. The mobile computing device also has a sensor for detecting data about the user's context. Based on the lists of information and the contextual data , the device generates a hypothesis as to information that may be of interest to the user. Using context data in conjunction with lists in this fashion focuses the system on information likely of interest, without requiring express user input. A search may be performed in accordance with the hypothesis. Based on the results of the search, one or more suggestions are then presented by the mobile computing device to the user. The user has the option to provide feedback input to the device resulting in an update of the suggestion. | 02-02-2012 |
20120030228 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR NEED FULFILLMENT - A method, a system and a computer program product for providing solutions for fulfilling a need of a user are provided. A query is received for capturing the need of the user. The need is processed to generate a set of actionable recommendations. Further one or more actions are identified by analyzing the recommendations. Furthermore, the actionable recommendations are provided to the user. The system includes a processing module to process the need to generate set of actionable recommendations. The actionable recommendations may be based on the user's preferences. The system further includes an Enriching module to provide richer information about the recommendation and to provide one or more actions for the fulfillment of needs. The system further includes a crystallization module for iterative processing of the need for more relevant recommendations. Further, the user is enabled to get opinion, about the recommendations, from other users. | 02-02-2012 |
20120066245 | WATERCRAFT AUTOMATION AND AQUATIC EFFORT DATA UTILIZATION - Watercraft automation and aquatic data utilization for aquatic efforts are disclosed. In one aspect, an anchor point is obtained and a watercraft position maintenance routine is actuated to control the watercraft to maintain association with the anchor point. In another aspect, prior aquatic effort data is obtained in association with an anchor point. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data is generated in association with an anchor point. In still another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized for prediction generation. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized to obtain another anchor point for a watercraft. | 03-15-2012 |
20120066246 | WATERCRAFT AUTOMATION AND AQUATIC EFFORT DATA UTILIZATION - Watercraft automation and aquatic data utilization for aquatic efforts are disclosed. In one aspect, an anchor point is obtained and a watercraft position maintenance routine is actuated to control the watercraft to maintain association with the anchor point. In another aspect, prior aquatic effort data is obtained in association with an anchor point. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data is generated in association with an anchor point. In still another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized for prediction generation. In yet another aspect, current aquatic effort data and prior aquatic effort data are utilized to obtain another anchor point for a watercraft. | 03-15-2012 |
20120078937 | MEDIA CONTENT RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON PREFERENCES FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF MEDIA CONTENT - Browsing content stored in a content source. A hierarchical tree structure is accessed. The hierarchical tree structure has nodes that correspond to at least one query for recommended content of a first content type that is recommended based on a collection of data for content of a second content type, the first content type and the second content type being different. Recommended content, of the first content type, stored in the content source is browsed by executing the at least one query for recommended content, the at least one query corresponding to at least one node of the hierarchical tree structure. The browsing is performed in accordance with a hierarchy of the hierarchical tree structure. | 03-29-2012 |
20120078938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT BASED QUERY AUGMENTATION - A system and method for context based query augmentation. A question is received over a network from a questioning user comprising an identification of a user and at least one question criteria. A first query is formulated so as to search, via the network, for user profile data, social network data, spatial data, temporal data and topical data so as to identify user context data relevant to question criteria. The question is modified using the user context data to create at least one modified question having at least one additional criteria based on the user context data. A second query is formulated so as to search, via the network, for knowledge data, user profile data, social network data, spatial data, temporal data and topical data so as to identify knowledge data relevant to the identified user and the modified question criteria. The knowledge data is transmitted, over the network, to the questioning user. | 03-29-2012 |
20120084312 | CHOOSING RECOGNIZED TEXT FROM A BACKGROUND ENVIRONMENT - A computer-implemented method includes receiving an electronic representation of one or more human voices, recognizing words in a first portion of the electronic representation of the one or more human voices, and sending suggested search terms to a display device for display to a user in a text format. The suggested search terms are based on the recognized words in the first portion of the electronic representation of the one or more human voices. A search query is received from the user, which includes one or more of the suggested search terms that were displayed to the user. | 04-05-2012 |
20120096019 | LOCALIZED AND CULTURAL DOMAIN NAME SUGGESTION - Suggested domain names are generated based upon regional, cultural and other information received from a user. The user input is correlated against terms in a localized name suggestion database to identify terms that are regionally and/or culturally relevant to the user. Candidate domain names are generated based upon the user input, the terms derived from the database and related terms such as synonyms. The candidate localized names that are available for registration are sent to the user, which can select one or more to be registered. | 04-19-2012 |
20120109994 | ROBUST AUTO-CORRECTION FOR DATA RETRIEVAL - A data-retrieval method for use on a portable electronic device. The method comprises receiving a query string at a user interface of the device and displaying one or more index strings on the user interface such that the relative prominence of each index string displayed increases with increasing resemblance of that index string to the query string. The method further comprises displaying an index string with greater prominence when a fixed-length substring of the query string occurs anywhere in the index string, regardless of position. In this manner, the relevance of prominently displayed index strings increases as more characters are appended to the query string, even if the query string contains errors. | 05-03-2012 |
20120117102 | QUERY SUGGESTIONS USING REPLACEMENT SUBSTITUTIONS AND AN ADVANCED QUERY SYNTAX - Query suggestion and other features are provided that include using an advanced query syntax, but are not so limited. A computer-implemented query service of an embodiment, operates to provide advanced query translations and suggestions based in part on a query rewriting algorithm that uses mappings and an advanced query syntax. A query method of one embodiment operates to provide one or more advanced queries that include one or more replacement queries that contain advanced query syntax. The method of an embodiment can automatically execute a rewritten query and/or present the rewritten query to the user as a query suggestion. Other embodiments are also disclosed. | 05-10-2012 |
20120124070 | RECOMMENDING QUERIES ACCORDING TO MAPPING OF QUERY COMMUNITIES - A set of queries, such as a search log, is divided into commercial queries and non-commercial queries. A first set of query communities is determined from the non-commercial queries and a second set is determined from the commercial queries. The query communities are correlated based on the users who submitted the queries and instances where a query from the first set of query communities was followed by a query from the second set to generate a mapping between the first set of query communities and the second set. Later, a non-commercial query is received from a user, and the mapping is used to predict one or more commercial queries that the user is likely to submit in the future based on the non-commercial query. One or more of the commercial queries are presented to the user according to the mapping with search results responsive to the non-commercial query. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124071 | EXTENSIBLE SEARCH TERM SUGGESTION ENGINE - A search term suggestion engine of a computing device receives characters of user data as the characters are input. The user data is at least part of a search term to be provided to one of multiple applications to search for the search term. An indication of multiple suggestion sources is received from the one application, and one or more suggested search terms are obtained, from the multiple suggestion sources, based on the received characters. One or more suggested search terms can also be obtained from the multiple suggestion sources based on one or more linguistic alternatives for the received characters. The one or more suggested search terms are combined into a combined set of suggested search terms, and the combined set of suggested search terms is returned to a search user interface for presentation to the user. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124072 | SYSTEM LEVEL SEARCH USER INTERFACE - A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and an application identification portion is displayed. User data input as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more applications of multiple applications on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the application identification portion. The search term is provided to one application of the multiple applications for that one application to generate and display search results based on the search term while the display of at least the data entry portion of the system level search user interface is maintained. | 05-17-2012 |
20120124073 | System & Method For Recommending Content Sources - A networked computer system identifies, optimizes and recommends content sources for users. The content sources can be used for providing news feeds, search results, etc. based on taking into net useful content contributed by such sources over other sources. | 05-17-2012 |
20120131032 | PRESENTING A SEARCH SUGGESTION WITH A SOCIAL COMMENTS ICON - Disclosed is a method of presenting a search suggestion to a user. The method includes receiving a portion of a search query from the user. Responsive to receiving the portion of the search query, presenting to the user one or more search suggestions and at least one social comment icon corresponding to at least one of the one or more search suggestions. The method also includes selecting the at least one social comment icon to view comments from and websites recommended by at least one friend of the user, the comments and websites pertaining to the corresponding at least one of the one or more search suggestions Also disclosed are computer program products. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131033 | AUTOMATED SCHEME FOR IDENTIFYING USER INTENT IN REAL-TIME - An intent guessing system receives partial user queries as they are entered by the user. The partial user queries are compared with different intents derived from previously logged queries. Guesses are made as to which of the intents are associated with the partial user query. The intent guesses are then provided as responses to the user query. Features are identified for the earlier logged queries and associated with the derived intents. The derived intents and associated features are then used to identify intents for the partial user queries. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131034 | Pangenetic Web User Behavior Prediction System - Computer based systems, methods, software and databases are presented in which correlations between web item preferences, behaviors and pangenetic (genetic and epigenetic) attributes of individuals are used for pangenetic based user behavior prediction in which predictions of a user's online behavior can be generated based on the user's pangenetic makeup. Data masking can be used to maintain privacy of sensitive portions of the pangenetic data. | 05-24-2012 |
20120131035 | GENERATING SEARCH QUERY SUGGESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating search query suggestions are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving in a data processing device a first textual input entered in a search engine query input field by a user; automatically sending from the device, before the user submits a request for a search and after waiting a predetermined amount of time after receiving each token of the first textual input, the first textual input to a first search service and a second search service; receiving from the first search service a set of first input suggestions and from the second search service a set of second input suggestions that is different from the set of first input suggestions; and displaying the first input suggestions in a first portion of a user interface and the second input suggestions in a distinct second portion of the user interface. | 05-24-2012 |
20120136886 | INCREMENTAL QUERY REFINEMENT - A method of incrementally refining queries and updating query result lists without requiring a user to provide an explicit indicator of query submission. In the method, one or more query related character patterns are defined. Entry of query defining characters by a user is monitored to detect entry of a defined query related character pattern. The user is provided with one or more suggested query refinement options and an updated query result list each time a defined query related character pattern is detected. The query related character patterns may be a character pattern that indicates a word has been input by the user. | 05-31-2012 |
20120136887 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING MULTIFUNCTIONAL SEARCH WINDOW SERVICE BASED ON USER-GENERATED RULES - The present invention relates to a method and a system for providing a multifunctional search window (search box) service, and more specifically, to a method and a system which can provide a multifunctional search window service for offering search and shortcut services based on various search rules and shortcuts that are generated by users, and suggest recommended search words and recommended search rules when a certain query is inputted. To this end, the present invention provides a search window service system positioned on the front end of a conventional search engine or service server. The search window service system comprises: a search word recommendation DB used to recommend search words which are associated with a query inputted by users, a search rule recommendation DB used to recommend search rules which are used in association with the search words, a personal settings information DB for storing settings information of each user, a search window information DB for storing settings information of each search window, a search rule information DB for enabling the users to directly register search rules, and a shortcut DB for enabling the users to directly register shortcut information; a query recommendation module for helping the inputting of the search words and the search rules for the inputted query on the basis of the search word recommendation DB and the search rule recommendation DB; a settings information restoration module for classifying and restoring queries according to each element on the basis of the personal settings information DB and the search window information DB; a command analysis module for perceiving whether the classified and restored query is a command, and configuring messages to execute the corresponding commands; a message restoration module for converting the query which is classified and restored via the settings information restoration module or the command analysis module into the messages on the basis of the search rule information DB and the shortcut information DB; a redirection module for redirecting the message which is generated from the message restoration module or the command analysis module to the users by using the redirection method; a template module for returning the message which is generated from the message restoration module to the users by using the template method; and a proxy module for returning the message which is generated from the message restoration module to the users by using the proxy method. | 05-31-2012 |
20120166466 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR ADAPTIVE SEARCHING FOR HEALTHCARE INFORMATION - Methods and apparatus for adaptive searching for healthcare information are disclosed. An example apparatus for searching healthcare information systems includes a search term counter to receive searched query terms and to receive roles of searchers entering the searched query terms, the search term counter to maintain statistics indicative of usage of the searched query terms according to roles of the corresponding searchers; an interface to receive one or more characters entered into a search field of a search service by a user; a user identifier to determine a role associated with the user; and a term selector to reference the statistics using the role associated with the user to identify a query term for suggestion to the user based on the received one or more characters and the role of the user, wherein the interface is to facilitate presentation of the identified query term as a suggestion to the user for the search service. | 06-28-2012 |
20120173561 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM FOR RECOMMENDING OTHER USERS OR OBJECTS BY CONSIDERING AT LEAST ONE USER'S PREFERENCE - The present invention relates to a method for recommending other users who have similar preference with a user. The method includes the steps of: acquiring information on objects selected by a user and other users; acquiring information on topics; determining to which topic the user and the other users respectively correspond; evaluating a degree of user similarity by each other user, the degree of user similarity being relevant to sum of probabilities of the specific object appearing in the state of a topic while k-th other user and the user have the topic as a probability of the k-th other user and the user having selected the specific object, by referring to correspondence relationships; and recommending specific other users who have a high degree of user similarity, wherein the degree of user similarity is evaluated by multiplying the sum by a probability of the specific object appearing independently. | 07-05-2012 |
20120173562 | RECOMMENDATION OF SEARCH KEYWORDS BASED ON INDICATION OF USER INTENTION - Search keyword recommendation includes: receiving a set of search keywords input by a user; determining whether the set of search keywords indicate a clearly defined intention by the user, including comparing the set of search keywords with a plurality of predetermined words corresponding to intentions that are not clearly defined; in the event that the set of search keywords are determined not to indicate a clearly defined intention, executing a first recommendation method to obtain recommended search keywords; wherein: the first recommendation method is selected among a plurality of recommendation methods; and the first recommendation method includes a knowledge-based recommendation method, a session correlation-based method, or a combination. | 07-05-2012 |
20120179705 | QUERY REFORMULATION IN ASSOCIATION WITH A SEARCH BOX - Methods and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate reformulating user queries in association with a search box are provided. A user query having a plurality of terms is received and a determination is made that the received user query satisfies a threshold. Based on the received user query, a first set of reformulated user queries is determined. The first set of reformulated user queries includes a plurality of member queries. The plurality of member queries may include one or more suggested query term alterations and/or one or more suggested query term deletions. The member queries may be categorized into groups and/or ranked prior to presentation to a user. A selection option may also be presented for a user to input additional query terms. | 07-12-2012 |
20120185498 | Tokenized Search Suggestions - Embodiments of tokenized search suggestions include generating, by at least one suggestion engine executing on a data processing system, first suggestions based on first text input in a text input field. The first suggestions are displayed on a display device and a selection of one of the first suggestions is received. The first text input is replaced with a first token corresponding to the selected one of the first suggestions. The at least one suggestion engine generates second suggestions based on second text input in the text input field and filters the second suggestions using the selected one of the first suggestions. The filtered selections are displayed on a display device. | 07-19-2012 |
20120191744 | DETECTING SEARCH MODE IN A BROWSER NAVIGATION BAR - Various embodiments are directed to providing users with more control over their navigation privacy, while offering robust search experiences through a web browser's address bar. In one or more embodiments, a web browser's search suggestion functionality is turned off by default. Users may choose to opt into the search suggestion functionality so that search suggestions can be provided to them when they enter search terms in the browser's address bar. In one or more embodiments, the status of search suggestion functionality is conveyed to the user so that they understand that their keystrokes are being provided to a search provider so that search suggestions can, in turn, be provided back to the web browser. | 07-26-2012 |
20120191745 | Synthesized Suggestions for Web-Search Queries - Data-mining software receives a user query as an input and segments the user query into a number of units. The data-mining software then drops terms from a unit using a Conditional Random Field (CRF) model that combines a number of features. At least one of the features is derived from query logs and at least one of the features is derived from web documents. The data-mining software then generates one or more candidate queries by adding terms to the unit. The added terms result from a hybrid method that utilizes query sessions and a web corpus. The data-mining software also scores each candidate query on well-formedness of the candidate query, utility, and relevance to the user query. Then the data-mining software stores the scored candidate queries in a database for subsequent display in a graphical user interface for a search engine. | 07-26-2012 |
20120239679 | SYSTEM TO GENERATE RELATED SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods described herein may operate to receive, at a search service, a first query from a user device corresponding to a current user of the search service, analyze existing search queries performed by users of the search service, and selectively provide, to the user device, a second query of the existing search queries as at least one of: a refinement of the first query based on determining that the second query includes all keywords in the first query, or an alternative to the first query based on determining that the second query lacks at least one keyword in the first query. | 09-20-2012 |
20120259882 | Mining for Product Classification Structures for Intenet-Based Product Searching - A product search engine uses web-crawling software to index textual webpage content from multiple internet sources. The product data obtained from the web-crawling process is then granulized by parsing methods into key words, such as, words and/or phrases. These components are compared with existing key words from search queries or webpage content. Each key word includes component tags, where the component tags map each component to product classification information in the form of structural parameters; and other product information such as, URLs, product images and product descriptions. When at least one matching key word is found, structural parameters are extracted from the matching components and assigned to the received key words. A search results webpage including product information grouped by associated structural parameter may be provided. | 10-11-2012 |
20120265779 | INTERACTIVE SEMANTIC QUERY SUGGESTION FOR CONTENT SEARCH - Systems, methods and computer-storage media are provided for identifying query formulation suggestions in response to receiving a search query. A portion of a search query is received. Query formulation suggestions are identified by semantically analyzing the search query. The query formulation suggestions are used to further formulate the received search query. The query formulation suggestions include semantic-pattern-based query suggestions that are derived from semantic query patterns, one or more entities, and information associated with these entities. The query formulation suggestions are transmitted for presentation. | 10-18-2012 |
20120271843 | Computer Processing Method and System for Searching - The present invention provides a computer processing method and a system thereof for searching. The computer processing method includes: receiving a first keyword; performing search using the first keyword to obtain a first search result; receiving user evaluation of the first search result; in response to the evaluation being unsatisfactory, searching for associated keywords from a keyword data source based on the first keyword; recommending associated keywords to the user according to matching degrees of the associated keywords and the first keyword; and in response to that the user selects an associated keyword from the recommended associated keywords, performing search based on the associated keyword selected by the user. The related specific implementation of the present application will help a user to find an input keyword more effectively during a search so as to enable him/her get more satisfactory search result. | 10-25-2012 |
20120278350 | METHODS AND ARRANGEMENTS FOR PROVIDING EFFECTIVE INTERACTIVE QUERY SUGGESTIONS WITHOUT QUERY LOGS - Methods and arrangements for providing interactive query suggestions. A partial user query phrase is received, the partial query phrase comprising a final word element. A vocabulary is accessed and, from the vocabulary, at least one possible completion of the final word element is ascertained. A phrase index is accessed and, from the phrase index, at least two phrases corresponding to completions of the partial user query phrase with the at least one possible completion of the final word element are ascertained. A probability score is assigned to each of the at least two phrases, and the at least two phrases are ranked based on probability. | 11-01-2012 |
20120284294 | USER DISCUSSION RELATING TO COMMON SUBJECT MATTER - A method and computer system including launching a dialogue window for two users to communicate with one another via respective client devices relating to a particular subject. A search query is received from an additional user including a keyword associated with the particular subject. In response to the request, a backlog of a recent discussion between the two users relating to the particular subject is retrieved and provided to the additional user, wherein the backlog includes a suggested link relating to the recent discussion. | 11-08-2012 |
20120303650 | Method and System for Incremental Search with Reduced Text Entry Where the Relevance of Results is a Dynamically Computed Function of User Input Search String Character Count - A method and system are provided for processing a search request received from a user operating a text input device. The search request is directed at identifying a desired item from a set of items, each of which has one or more associated terms. The method includes receiving a query input from a user that comprises one or more characters input by the user on the text input device. As each character of the query input is received from the user, a group of items having one or more terms matching the received characters is dynamically identified. The items in the group are ordered based on relevance values of the terms matching the characters and on the number of characters of the query input used in identifying the group of items. Identification of the group of items as ordered is transmitted to the user to be displayed. | 11-29-2012 |
20120310966 | Query Suggestion for Efficient Legal E-Discovery - Given a set of training documents relevant to a litigation hold, properties common to the documents relevant to the case and not common or missing in the non-relevant documents can be identified and used to generate a litigation hold query to be suggested to a user. After receiving a training set of documents, one or more common properties between the relevant training documents are identified. Based on the common properties, a suggested litigation hold query can be generated to return documents in a larger set that are representative of the relevant documents in the training set. Additionally, a query can be generated by iteratively improving a base query to return documents sharing characteristics of a training set of documents. Suggested queries may evolve as the training set evolves. | 12-06-2012 |
20120323951 | Method and apparatus for providing contextual based searches - An approach is presented for providing contextual based searches. A contextual query platform processes at least one query to parse one or more terms associated with at least one contextual parameter. The platform further determines one or more values and/or one or more probabilities associated with the one or more values for the at least one contextual parameter based on one or more probabilistic models associated with the at least one contextual parameter. The platform further compares the one or more values and/or the one or more probabilities against at least one threshold criteria. The platform further determines whether to process the at least one query using the one or more values, to generate a recommendation for using the one or more values, to determine one or more alternate values, or a combination thereof based, at least in part, on the comparison. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323952 | PROVIDING EFFECTIVE INTERACTIVE QUERY SUGGESTIONS WITHOUT QUERY LOGS - Methods and arrangements for providing interactive query suggestions. A partial user query phrase is received, the partial query phrase comprising a final word element. A vocabulary is accessed and, from the vocabulary, at least one possible completion of the final word element is ascertained. A phrase index is accessed and, from the phrase index, at least two phrases corresponding to completions of the partial user query phrase with the at least one possible completion of the final word element are ascertained. A probability score is assigned to each of the at least two phrases, and the at least two phrases are ranked based on probability. | 12-20-2012 |
20120323953 | PREDICTIVE SELECTION OF ITEM ATTRIBUTES LIKELY TO BE USEFUL IN REFINING A SEARCH - Systems and methods are described for identifying item attributes that are likely to be useful to users in refining searches for items. In one embodiment, when a user submits a search query to search for items, all or a portion of the search query is used to look-up a previously-generated list of item attributes (and optionally associated attribute values) that are associated with the search query and are useful for refining the search. These item attributes, and any associated attribute values, are then presented to the user in a selectable form such that the user can interactively narrow the search. | 12-20-2012 |
20130046777 | ENHANCED QUERY SUGGESTIONS IN AUTOSUGGEST WITH CORRESPONDING RELEVANT DATA - Methods and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate determining enhanced query suggestions are provided. A plurality of query suggestions responsive to a user query are received. Items of data corresponding to the query suggestions are received. Based on the received query suggestions and the received items of data, enhanced query suggestions are determined. In embodiments, an enhanced query suggestion includes one or more items of data related to a respective query suggestion. A user may select at least a portion of an enhanced query suggestion. In embodiments, selection of a portion of an enhanced query suggestion provides additional information. | 02-21-2013 |
20130046778 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATED SERVICE RECOMMENDATIONS - A system and method for automated service recommendations. A request is received over a network, from a user for service recommendations, wherein the request comprises an identification of the user and at least one service selection criteria. A query is formulated so as to search, via the network, for user profile data, spatial data, temporal data, social data and topical data that is available via the network and relates to the requesting user, the service selection criteria and to a plurality of services available via the network so as to a identify a subset of the plurality of services available via the network that relate to the request. A list of the identified subset of services is transmitted, via the network, to the requesting user. A selection of at least one of the selected subset of services available received from the user and the user is enrolled in the selected service. | 02-21-2013 |
20130054631 | ADDING SOCIAL NETWORK DATA TO SEARCH SUGGESTIONS - Methods, computer systems and computer-readable media for adding social network data to search suggestions are provided. At least a portion of a search query is received, and a set of suggested search queries is determined for the at least a portion of the search query. A first suggested search query in the set of suggested search queries is determined to be associated with a person or entity. A social data store is accessed; the social data store includes social network data. It is determined that the person or entity is associated with a set of social network data in the social data store, and the set of social network data in association with the first suggested search query is provided to a search engine page. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054632 | Caching Input Suggestions - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for caching input suggestions are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first textual input in an input field from a user; sending the first textual input to a server before a user submits a request for results based on the first textual input; receiving a set of input suggestions from the server; storing the set of input suggestions in a local cache; displaying a first subset of input suggestions from the set of input suggestions to the user; receiving additional textual input from the user after the first textual input is sent to the server; analyzing the stored set of input suggestions to identify a new subset of input suggestions based on the additional textual input; and displaying the new subset of input suggestions. | 02-28-2013 |
20130066896 | DYNAMIC SPELLING CORRECTION OF SEARCH QUERIES - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for dynamically correcting misspelled search queries are provided. A portion of a search query is received, and a data store is accessed. It is determined that the portion of the search query is absent from the data store and, thus, comprises a misspelled portion of a search query. Correctly spelled portions of search queries are dynamically determined for the misspelled portion of the search query using a trie data structure, and the misspelled portion of the search query is associated with the correctly spelled portions of search queries. Search suggestions are determined for the correctly spelled portions of search queries and are ranked based on a frequency of use and on a transformation cost of associating the misspelled portion of the search query with the correctly spelled portion of search queries. The ranked search suggestions are provided to a user. | 03-14-2013 |
20130073580 | INTELLIGENT MAP RESULTS RELATED TO A CHARACTER STREAM - Information may be presented to a user by using a first application to receive a character stream of one or more noncompletion characters. The noncompletion characters indicate that additional characters may be received. The character stream is exchanged with a host that analyzes the character stream to generate results that are responsive to the user's predicted interest. Results are received and displayed so that the user may select one of the results to launch a code segment related to the selected result. | 03-21-2013 |
20130080460 | PROVIDING TOPIC BASED SEARCH GUIDANCE - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing topical search suggestions are provided. Topical search suggestions allow a user to receive search results related to the designated topic or subject matter. The present invention may generate multiple topics based on search input provided by a user. The search input may be a search prefix that includes one or more words entered into the search query box before the completed search query is submitted to the search engine. A search interface then presents the topics derived from the search prefix to a user before the user submits the query. In another embodiment, the user designates multiple search inputs. The present invention generates search results based on the search inputs and then presents topics extracted from the search results. In one embodiment, the topics are extracted by performing a natural language analysis of search result metadata. | 03-28-2013 |
20130086099 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SERVICE RECOMMENDATION SERVICE - The present disclosure includes a system and method for a service recommendation service [ | 04-04-2013 |
20130110863 | ASSISTED SEARCHING | 05-02-2013 |
20130117297 | DOMAIN SPECIFIC QUERY-COMPLETION SUGGESTIONS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions configured to be searched against vertical information domains in response to receiving a general web search query are provided. At least a portion of a general web search query is received. As the portion of the general web search query is received, query-completion suggestions are determined as is a likely primary intent associated with at least a portion of the determined query-completion suggestions. If the likely primary intent associated with a particular query-completion suggestion is for information associated with a particular vertical information domain other than the general web domain, the query-completion suggestion is provided such that selection thereof causes searching of the query-completion suggestion against the particular information domain for search results. | 05-09-2013 |
20130151547 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING DOCUMENT RECOMMENDATIONS - A method and system for generating document recommendations is provided. An example system comprises a task commencement detector to detect commencement of a subject task in an enterprise management system, a similar tasks detector to determine one or more further tasks that are same or similar to the subject task, a document access information detector to determine one or more documents from a document management system that were accessed in association with any of the tasks from the one or more further tasks, a document selector to select at least one recommendation document, and a recommendation generator to generate a recommendation comprising the identified recommendation documents. | 06-13-2013 |
20130166585 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING QUERY-RELATED SUGGESTIONS - Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to determine one or more suggestions of entities relating to a user query. | 06-27-2013 |
20130173650 | TASK-ORIENTED QUERY-COMPLETION SUGGESTIONS WITH SHORTCUTS - Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing task-oriented query-completion suggestions are provided. A portion of a search query is received, for instance, via a query-input region or search box presented in association with a general web search domain. As the portion of the search query is received, it is determined that the received search query portion is suggestive of a task-oriented user intent. Also determined are query-completion suggestions that are associated with the task-oriented user intent of which the search query portion is suggestive. The determined query-completion suggestions are then provided to the user. As query-completion suggestions are surfaced with input of short character sequences that are associated with task-oriented user intents, users can quickly be provided the relevant, rich content for completing their intended tasks. | 07-04-2013 |
20130191408 | SEARCH ASSISTANT FOR DIGITAL MEDIA ASSETS - Techniques and systems for facilitating searching of digital media assets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user can be assisted in entering search strings for searching a media repository (e.g., online media store) having a plurality of digital media assets that are available, e.g., available for purchase. When the user enters a search character, a list of possible complete search strings corresponding to digital media assets available in the media repository can be obtained over a network and presented to the user. The list of possible search strings can be filtered based on whether a client device supports a media type associated with a word or based on a location of the client device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130191409 | INTELLIGENT NAVIGATION OF A CATEGORY SYSTEM - Enabling intelligent navigation is described, including: performing analysis of historical user activity data with respect to a query term to generate reference data associated with the query term; selecting a navigation recommendation model for the query term based at least in part on the reference data; using the reference data and the selected navigation recommendation model to determine a set of recommendation data associated with the query term, wherein the set of recommendation data includes at least a portion of a category system to be displayed in response to a subsequently received query including the query term. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198220 | System Level Search User Interface - A system level search user interface that includes both a data entry portion and an application identification portion is displayed. User data input as a search term is displayed in the data entry portion, and identifiers of each of one or more applications of multiple applications on the computing device that can be searched using the search term are displayed in the application identification portion. The search term is provided to one application of the multiple applications for that one application to generate and display search results based on the search term while the display of at least the data entry portion of the system level search user interface is maintained. | 08-01-2013 |
20130212120 | MULTI-DOMAIN RECOMMENDATIONS - Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for generating and presenting multi-domain recommendations to a user viewing a Web page are provided. A topic-of-interest is identified on the Web page being viewed by the user. The topic-of-interest is mapped to an entity ID in a multi-domain recommendation data structure. The multi-domain recommendation data structure is used to identify entities, uniform resource locators, and search queries mapped to the entity ID. Multi-domain recommendations are generated using the entities, uniform resource locators, and search queries; the multi-domain recommendations are presented on the Web page being viewed by the user. | 08-15-2013 |
20130226952 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRESENTING INPUT SUGGESTIONS IN INPUT FIELDS OF A SPECIFIC TYPE IN WEB PAGES - Systems and methods display input suggestions on web pages having an input field for receiving a specific type of user input. A module stored on a user device is remote from a database containing the input suggestions. The module detects the presence of any input fields of a specific type in a web page. For each detected input field of the specific type, the module generates a combo box that is displayed so as to cover and visually replace the input field. The combo boxes display input suggestions contained in the database. The database can be updated to add or remove input suggestions for particular websites determined to be valid or invalid at those websites. Analysis of the validity of the input suggestions can be based on page analyses sent from the module and performed before and after any submission of an input suggestion. | 08-29-2013 |
20130226953 | INTERACTIVE QUERY COMPLETION TEMPLATES - Methods, systems and apparatus are described herein that includes identifying a partial query entered into a search field. A query completion template is then provided for display for a category of information associated with one or more terms within the partial query, the query completion template including an interactive field that is user editable. User interaction with the interactive field is the identified. Display of the query completion template is then updated to include the results of the user interaction within the interactive of the query completion template. User selection of the updated query completion template is then identified, and in response the updated display of the query completion template is transmitted as a search query. | 08-29-2013 |
20130275453 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING TEMPORAL SEARCH SUGGESTIONS IN REAL-TIME - A method and system for providing temporal search suggestions in real-time. The method includes obtaining real-time data from one or more websites. The method also includes processing the real-time data to detect one or more trending topics associated with the real-time data, and to extract a plurality of events from the real-time data. Further, the method includes storing the plurality of events along with associated timestamps. Moreover, the method includes providing one or more temporal search suggestions based on the trending topics and the plurality of events, the one or more temporal search suggestions being responsive to a search query of a user. The system includes an electronic device, a communication interface, a memory, and a processor. The processor further includes a real-time data unit, a trending topic detector, an event extractor unit, and a search suggest unit. | 10-17-2013 |
20130282749 | INSTANT SEARCH RESULTS WITH PAGE PREVIEWS - Methods, systems, and programming for providing search previews is disclosed. At least one input is received. At least one query suggestion is generated based on the at least one input. The at least one query suggestion is displayed in a first display area. At least one web page preview is generated based on the at least one input. The at least one web page preview is displayed in a second display area. Each web page preview is viewable and actionable. | 10-24-2013 |
20130282750 | RECOMMENDING RELEVANT AND PERSONALIZED CONTENT ACCESSING KEYWORDS FOR USERS OF A TEXT MESSAGING SERVICE BASED GLOBAL TEXTSITE PLATFORM - A method and system for recommending relevant and personalized content retrieving keywords to users of a text messaging service (TMS) based content platform. Embodiments of the invention provide a discovery mechanism for introducing registered keywords identifying published information in the TMS based content platform that may be of interest to the user. In particular, the solution is hybrid in nature combining various sources of recommendations (e.g., based on past usage patterns, emerging trends, expert suggestions, etc.) to select recommended keywords. Based on this keyword discovery/recommendation mechanism, users with a basic phone and without smartphone data plans can discover contents through a TMS based content platform. | 10-24-2013 |
20130290366 | AUTOMATED SELF-SERVICE USER SUPPORT BASED ON ONTOLOGY ANALYSIS - A system for implementing a method that provides information to a user in response to a received user query. A natural language analysis generates substrings relevant to the user query. An ontology analysis outputs: terms of an ontology matching the relevant generated substrings; and relationships between the terms. A query analysis analyzes the user query regarding the outputted terms and relationships, including ascertaining whether the user query is more suitable for service than for an information search. If it is so ascertained, then service actions for the user to perform are identified to the user. If it is not so ascertained, then: the user query is refined based on the outputted terms and relationships; a search query is generated based on the refined user query, a search is initiated based on the search query, and results of the search are provided to the user. | 10-31-2013 |
20130304757 | EXTENSIBLE SEARCH TERM SUGGESTION ENGINE - A search term suggestion engine of a computing device receives characters of user data as the characters are input. The user data is at least part of a search term to be provided to one of multiple applications to search for the search term. An indication of multiple suggestion sources is received from the one application, and one or more suggested search terms are obtained, from the multiple suggestion sources, based on the received characters. One or more suggested search terms can also be obtained from the multiple suggestion sources based on one or more linguistic alternatives for the received characters. The one or more suggested search terms are combined into a combined set of suggested search terms, and the combined set of suggested search terms is returned to a search user interface for presentation to the user. | 11-14-2013 |
20130311505 | Methods and Apparatus for Automated Keyword Refinement - Methods and apparatus for an automated keyword refinement tool for generating an output set of keywords. The keyword refinement tool may utilize or incorporate results from keyword suggestion tools and keyword ranking tools in order to determine a set of keywords that produce better search engine results that if the keyword suggestion tools or keyword ranking tools were utilized individually. The keyword refinement tool may use a variety of methods for determining input to keyword suggestions tools and keyword ranking tools and a variety of methods for combining the results from the keyword suggestion tools and keyword ranking tools. | 11-21-2013 |
20130339380 | PROVIDING QUERY SUGGESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing query suggestions. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a search string from a user device. A measure of query completeness is determined for the search string. The measure of query completeness is compared to a threshold measure of query completeness. One or more specific query suggestions are provided to the user device, selected from a plurality of specific query suggestions for the search string, when the measure of query completeness exceeds the threshold measure of query completeness; or one or more general query suggestions are provided to the user device, selected from a plurality of general query suggestions for the search string, when the measure of query completeness does not exceed the threshold measure of query completeness. | 12-19-2013 |
20130346435 | QUERY VALIDATOR - According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to receive a syntax correct query, analyze the syntax correct query, and output a message associated with the syntax correct query. | 12-26-2013 |
20140032589 | DOMAIN NAME SEARCHING WITH REPUTATION RATING - A method includes calculating, by at least one server communicatively coupled to a network, a rating for a domain name. The rating is based in part on reputation data for the domain name. The method includes receiving, by the at least one server, a domain name query from a requester, and forming, by the at least one server, a listing of candidate domain names using the domain name query. An inclusion of the domain name into the listing of candidate domain names or an order placement of the domain name within the listing of candidate domain names is a function of the rating for the domain name. The method includes returning, by the at least one server, the listing of candidate domain names to the requester. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040304 | MINING PRODUCT RECOMMENDATION FROM QUERY REFORMULATIONS - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to mine product recommendations from query reformulation is provided. In example embodiments, a search query is mapped to a particular product. Transition data for the particular product is accessed. The transition data includes values reflecting a number of search transitions between the particular product and other products in session sets of previous queries. One or more recommendations based on the transition data is determined and provided to the user. | 02-06-2014 |
20140067848 | ESTIMATION OF EFFECTS OF PROCESS CUSTOMIZATION - An apparatus for suggesting changes to processes includes memory and a processor. The memory includes a base process repository for storing data representing one or more base processes, a modified process repository for storing data representing one or more modified processes modifying the one or more base processes, and an effects repository for storing data associated with effects of the one or more modified processes relative to the base processes. The processor is configured to receive data corresponding to a desired base process and desired effects, to compare the desired effects to effects stored in the effects repository, and to provide one or more suggested modified processes from the modified process repository based on a similarity of the suggested modified processes with the desired base process and a similarity of effects associated with the suggested modified processes with the desired effects. | 03-06-2014 |
20140074877 | GROUPED SEARCH QUERY REFINEMENTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for grouping search query refinements. One of the methods includes while receiving a text input into an input field by a user and before the user has submitted the text input to a search engine obtaining query suggestions based at least in part on the text input. The method includes grouping query suggestions based on a common query term shared by the query suggestions, wherein the query suggestions include terms that refine the common query term. The method includes transmitting a set of query suggestions to a client device for presentation, wherein the set includes the query suggestions that are presented as a group with the common query term presented in a prominent position and the refinement terms presented in subordinate positions and wherein the common query term and the refinement terms are each user-selectable. | 03-13-2014 |
20140095528 | CONTEXTUAL QUERY REVISION - Apparatus, systems and methods for contextual query revision are disclosed. A current search query is received during a search session. The current search query includes one or more current search tokens. Potentially inaccurate search tokens are identified from the one or more current search tokens. A possible replacement token is identified based upon the potentially inaccurate search token. A group of related tokens is identified from query logs, and a modified search query is generated if the replacement token is not included in the related tokens. | 04-03-2014 |
20140101191 | Performing a Search for a document - A system for performing a search for a document in a collection of documents ( | 04-10-2014 |
20140108445 | System and Method for Personalizing Query Suggestions Based on User Interest Profile - A server system receives a partial search query from a search requestor prior to the search requestor signaling completion of a search query that includes the partial search query. The server system responds to receipt of the partial search query by obtaining a set of complete queries previously submitted by a community of users. The complete queries correspond to the partial query and are ordered in accordance with ranking criteria. The server system sends the set of ordered complete queries to the search requestor. The server system obtains the set of complete queries by generating scores for a plurality of the obtained complete queries previously submitted by the community of users in accordance with an interest profile of the search requestor and ordering the obtained complete queries in accordance with the generated scores and the ranking criteria. | 04-17-2014 |
20140122516 | INCREMENTAL QUERY REFINEMENT - A method of incrementally refining queries and updating query result lists without requiring a user to provide an explicit indicator of query submission. In the method, one or more query related character patterns are defined. Entry of query defining characters by a user is monitored to detect entry of a defined query related character pattern. The user is provided with one or more suggested query refinement options and an updated query result list each time a defined query related character pattern is detected. The query related character patterns may be a character pattern that indicates a word has been input by the user. | 05-01-2014 |
20140143268 | CREATING QUERY SUGGESTIONS BASED ON PROCESSING OF DESCRIPTIVE TERM IN A PARTIAL QUERY - Methods and apparatus related to processing of at least one descriptive term of a query to obtain at least one query suggestion for a query. A descriptive term may be identified in a partial search query. A modified partial query suggestion request for the partial search query may be transmitted that omits the descriptive term. At least one query suggestion result for the modified partial query suggestion request may be received and the descriptive term reinserted into the query suggestion result. | 05-22-2014 |
20140149447 | METHODS FOR PROVIDING WEB SEARCH SUGGESTIONS AND DEVICES THEREOF - A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and programmed device that use local storage in a browser to provide one or more web search suggestions includes receiving at least a partial entry in field of a web page. Any responsive web search suggestion entries to the received at least a partial entry are provided in the field of the web page from a web search suggestion file stored in a web browser of the client computing device. | 05-29-2014 |
20140156693 | FILMSTRIP-BASED QUERY SUGGESTIONS - Various embodiments of the present invention present a search query suggestion to a user. In one embodiment a portion of a search query is received from a user. At least one search query suggestion is identified from a set of search query suggestions corresponding to the portion of the search query. At least one video frame is identified from at least video file associated with the at least one search query suggestion. The at least one search query suggestion and the at least one video frame is presented to the user. | 06-05-2014 |
20140181135 | PREDICTIVE QUERY COMPLETION AND PREDICTIVE SEARCH RESULTS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for processing search query suggestions. In one aspect, a search service provides query suggestions responsive to a query suggestion request from a client device, and determines if a prediction criterion is met. The prediction criterion is independent of a user selection of a query suggestion provided in response to one or more query suggestion requests. In response to determining that the prediction criterion is met, the search system provides search results to the client device. The search results are responsive to one of the query suggestions provided in response to the query suggestion request or one or more previous query suggestion requests. | 06-26-2014 |
20140188926 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING SEARCH SUGGESTIONS - Systems and methods for providing search suggestions are disclosed. In some implementations, a method includes: at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory storing one or more programs for execution by the one or more processors: displaying a search field; detecting a predefined user activity relating to the search field over a first predefined period of time; and in response to the detection: displaying one of: (i) a suggested search feature demonstrating syntax of a system-supported user query, or (ii) a suggested search term related to a user's recent viewing activity. In other implementations, the method includes: displaying a search field; detecting user inactivity with respect to the search field over a first predefined period of time; and in response to the detection: displaying, in the search field, a search suggestion demonstrating syntax of a system-supported user query. | 07-03-2014 |
20140201229 | PROVIDING DISPLAY SUGGESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing display suggestions. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a resource that includes multiple terms, obtaining one or more prefixes that are derived from the multiple terms and, for each prefix, one or more actual suggestions, wherein each actual suggestion is a term from the resource that includes the prefix, obtaining one or more display suggestions, wherein each display suggestion includes two or more successive terms from the resource that are identified as related, and outputting, in response to receiving a user input of a particular prefix, a representation of a particular display suggestion that includes a term that is an actual suggestion for the particular prefix. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201230 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING SPONSORED INFORMATION ON ELECTRONIC DEVICES - A system implementing a method for providing sponsored information on an electronic device determines information of interest to the user as relevant information, accesses sponsored information, and provides sponsored information based on said relevant information. | 07-17-2014 |
20140222854 | Personalized Structured Search Queries for Online Social Networks - In particular embodiments, a method includes receiving an text query, identifying nodes and edges from a social graph that correspond to character strings from the text query, and then generating recommended queries that include references to the identified nodes and edges. | 08-07-2014 |
20140280289 | AUTOSUGGESTIONS BASED ON USER HISTORY - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for recommending completions for partial strings while a user is typing in characters of the partial strings are provided. A search engine executed by a server receives the partial string. In response, the search engine generates autosuggestions and user-specific completions. The user-specific completions are based on a history corresponding to the user. The user-specific completions are also associated with one or more URIs. The autosuggestions and user-specific completions are transmitted in display rank order to the user. The autosuggestions and user-specific completions are displayed in a dropdown box that allows the user to select a completion for the partial string. A URI corresponding to the user-specific completions is displayed based on user interaction with the user-specific completions include in the dropdown box. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280290 | SELECTION AND DISPLAY OF ALTERNATIVE SUGGESTED SUB-STRINGS IN A QUERY - Suggesting replacements for search sub-strings to a user. A method includes receiving a query string from a user including a plurality of search sub-strings in the query string. The method further includes determining semantically valid replacements of one or more search sub-strings in the query string. The method further includes suggesting to the user semantically valid replacements of one or more of the search sub-strings to allow the user to modify the original query string. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280291 | Using Recent Media Consumption To Select Query Suggestions - Methods and apparatus related to identifying aspects of media files that are provided to users and ranking query suggestions based on the aspects. Some implementations are directed to ranking the query suggestions of the user who was provided the media file. Some implementations are directed to ranking the query suggestions of a second user that is in the same grouping as the first user. Some implementations are directed to ranking the query suggestions of the first user based on aspects that are related to the provided media file, but not directly associated with the provided media file. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280292 | REFINING A SEARCH BASED ON SCHEDULE ITEMS - A method includes receiving a search request from a user, the search request specifying one or more search criteria for selecting one or more selection items from a respective selection domain; identifying one or more schedule items relevant to the search request; augmenting the search request based on information contained in at least one of the identified schedule items; and presenting the augmented search request or search results retrieved based on the augmented search request to the user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140297677 | RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS, RECOMMENDATION METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - There is provided a technique capable of recommending more useful contents to a recommendation target user who is the current work user. A group of recommendation candidate contents is obtained from a similar work case similar to work by the recommendation target user. A relationship between an arbitrary user and the recommendation candidate contents is detected. Recommendation candidate contents having the detected relationship with the recommendation target user are recommended by priority from among the group of recommendation candidate contents. | 10-02-2014 |
20140324903 | SOURCING TERMS INTO A SEARCH ENGINE - Information may be presented to a user by receiving a selection of one or more terms passively displayed in a document, loading the terms to a search configuration, generating first results responsive to a user's predicted interest as expressed in the search configuration, and enabling display of the first results. | 10-30-2014 |
20140330857 | Suggested Search Based on a Content Item - A note sharing system is presented with a content management system. Note sharing system manages creation and distribution of edits to notes to users sharing notes. Notes are stored as a series of edits at note sharing system. When an edit to a note is received, the edit is propagated to users subscribed to a note by a backend server responsible for managing the note. The sharing users are notified through notes servers associated with each sharing user. Notes server includes various indices for searching notes and allows notes to be searched quickly to organize viewing by a user of notes and identification of relevant material in notes. The stored edits are used to display edits to a note to a user by replaying the accessed note to the user. | 11-06-2014 |
20140337371 | Filtering Suggested Structured Queries on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, receiving from a user an unstructured text query, generating a set of structured queries based on the text query, calculating a quality score based on the text query and the structured query for each structured query in the set, and filtering the set to remove each structured query having a quality score less than a threshold score. | 11-13-2014 |
20140337372 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PROGRAM USING SEMANTIC MASHUP TECHNOLOGY - A method of providing a program is provided. The method includes: receiving a query of a user; semantically analyzing the query of the user; determining an intent of the user using an intent graph; recommending at least one service based on the determined intent; mashing up a selected at least one service in response to a service being selected with respect to the recommended at least one service; and providing a program generated by a result of the mashing up. | 11-13-2014 |
20140344304 | ENHANCED SEARCH SUGGESTION FOR PERSONAL INFORMATION SERVICES - Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for implementing enhanced search suggestion technology. In at least one implementation, a personal information application includes a search suggestion element in which both search suggestions and contacts suggestions may be presented. The personal information application includes a search element in a user interface to a personal information service in which a search query may be entered. Search suggestions and contact suggestions can be identified based at least in part on the search query and presented via a suggestion element in the user interface. An indication of interest made with respect to a contact suggestion results in the presentation of contact details for an associated contact. The presentation of at least the search suggestions persists while the contact details of the associated contact are presented. | 11-20-2014 |
20140358957 | PROVIDING SEARCH SUGGESTIONS FROM USER SELECTED DATA SOURCES FOR AN INPUT STRING - Provided are a computer program product for generating suggestions for an input string. A determination is made of strings in a user selected data source having at least a substring matching an input string, from a computer implemented user interface, comprising at least one character for use by a computer implemented process. The determined strings are provided to the user interface and selection is received of one of the determined strings from the user interface to provide to the computer implemented process. | 12-04-2014 |
20140379744 | INTENT-AWARE KEYBOARD - Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that provide contextual services are provided. Embodiments of the present invention allow an input mechanism to provide contextual services. Exemplary input mechanisms include a keyboard, a gesture interface, and a speech interface. These inputs may be used to provide user input into one or more applications running on a computer. The contextual services provided include composition assistance, grammatical assistance, communication-context assistance, and research assistance. In one embodiment, an input mechanism (“IME”) program provides the contextual service. The IME program may work with a remote contextual-service provider. The IME program communicates user input and contextual information to the contextual-service provider. The contextual-service provider analyzes the input and contextual information to determine whether one or more contextual services should be provided. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379745 | RECOMMENDATION OF SEARCH KEYWORDS BASED ON INDICATION OF USER INTENTION - Search keyword recommendation includes: receiving a set of search keywords input by a user; determining whether the set of search keywords indicate a clearly defined intention by the user, including comparing the set of search keywords with a plurality of predetermined words corresponding to intentions that are not clearly defined; in the event that the set of search keywords are determined not to indicate a clearly defined intention, executing a first recommendation method to obtain recommended search keywords; wherein: the first recommendation method is selected among a plurality of recommendation methods; and the first recommendation method includes a knowledge-based recommendation method, a session correlation-based method, or a combination. | 12-25-2014 |
20140379746 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING TOPIC CLUSTER BASED UPDATES - The present invention is directed towards a method and system for providing a recommendation set. The method and system includes determining various topic clusters from single topic clusters. The method and system further includes identifying various topic clusters for an identified single topic cluster and providing recommendations from the various topic clusters via web updates. | 12-25-2014 |
20150039644 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF PLAYLISTS AND THE PRESENTATION OF CONTENT - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for recommending and/or optimizing a presentation of content as a function of activity related to consumed content, and more particularly to analysis of content and related data as a criteria for forming specific playlists based on a larger selection of content, and arranging the order of content within a playlist to form, for example, personalized, curated collections of content (e.g., curated “playlists”). According to some examples, a flow includes receiving, at a processor, a request for a list identifying audio content items, and accessing consumption data indicative of audio content consumed by one or more media devices associated with a user. The flow can also include identifying one or more lists identifying subsets of audio content items, determining an order of presentation, and providing the processor with data representing the one or more modified lists responsive to the request. | 02-05-2015 |
20150058373 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AGENT SERVICE TO USER TERMINAL - A method may provide an agent service to a user terminal by including receiving a user instruction from the user terminal, determining whether at least one agent reply to at least one keyword included in the user instruction is able to be searched for in a database, providing at least one suggestive query to the user terminal to allow a search for the at least one agent reply, receiving at least one set of additional information with respect to the at least one suggestive query from the user terminal, and providing the at least one agent reply to the user terminal based on the at least one set of additional information. | 02-26-2015 |
20150074137 | HEAT MAP OF SUGGESTED SEARCH QUERIES - A search query portion is received. A plurality of suggested search queries is identified based on the search query portion. Feature values are determined for each of the plurality of suggested search queries based on a feature display preference. A heat map of the suggested search queries is transmitted to a client computer system. The heat map contains a plurality of blocks visually representing the plurality of suggested search queries and the determined feature values. | 03-12-2015 |
20150074138 | SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING VERTICAL SERVICE CONNECTION - A search system for providing a vertical service connection includes a search word completing unit configured to determine, upon receiving a search word from a user terminal, at least one auto-complete search word corresponding to a currently input search word; a search word matching unit configured to match the at least one auto-complete search word with a vertical service; a display unit configured to cause the display of the at least one auto-complete search word and a vertical service icon; and a vertical service searching unit configured to provide, upon receiving a selection signal indicating selection of the vertical service icon, results of searching content included in the matched vertical service for the at least one auto-complete search word. | 03-12-2015 |
20150088921 | SEARCH GUIDANCE - A user may submit a search query to a search engine, which may process the search query and generate a set of results. Previous actions of the user or of other users may be used to identify recommended search queries. The recommended search queries may be presented to the user along with the search results for the query. The location of the recommended search queries may be fixed, set by the user, or determined on a query-by-query basis. A user interface element operable to cause the presentation of one or more recommended search queries may be presented after a delay. After an additional or independent delay, the recommended search queries may be presented automatically. The delays may be fixed, set by the user, or determined on a query-by-query basis. | 03-26-2015 |
20150100598 | ASSISTED NAME CHANGE AUTOMATION SYSTEM - An assisted name change automation (ANCA) system provides analytically derived name change recommendations to women considering marital name changes. The ANCA system provides the user with a questionnaire asking a number of questions relevant to the name change decision. The results are then used to score the available choices based on a statistical analysis of a large number of prior name change decisions. A number of demographic factors may be taken into consideration, such as the subject's geographical location, age, education level, profession, whether the subject has brothers with the same last name, and so forth. The name change recommendation is then displayed to the user. A detailed report may also be presented to the user including the recommended name change, if any, along with a graphical presentation of how the user's questionnaire responses compare with the data in the historical database. | 04-09-2015 |
20150100599 | User-Powered Recommendation System - Recommendation systems are widely used in Internet applications. In current recommendation systems, users only play a passive role and have limited control over the recommendation generation process. As a result, there is often considerable mismatch between the recommendations made by these systems and the actual user interests, which are fine-grained and constantly evolving. With a user-powered distributed recommendation architecture, individual users can flexibly define fine-grained communities of interest in a declarative fashion and obtain recommendations accurately tailored to their interests by aggregating opinions of users in such communities. By combining a progressive sampling technique with data perturbation methods, the recommendation system is both scalable and privacy-preserving. | 04-09-2015 |
20150120773 | INFREQUENT QUERY VARIANTS FOR USE AS QUERY SUGGESTIONS - The technology described identifies infrequently submitted past queries for use as query suggestions that are likely assist users in finding the information they seek. The technology includes filtering of infrequent queries by comparing canonical representations of the infrequent queries to canonical representations of popular queries. Canonical representations of infrequent queries are matched to canonical representations of popular queries; any infrequent queries are rejected from use as suggested queries if their canonical representation does not match that of any popular query. Selected infrequent queries can be stored as authorized for use by a subsequent computerized process in determining a query suggestion. | 04-30-2015 |
20150310071 | TEMPORAL PROXIMITY QUERY EXPANSION - Search query expansion tool is provided. A processor generates a collection of events for a search result, wherein events included in the collection of events are within a temporal proximity to the search result. A processor determines a content of the collection of events. A processor determines a search suggestion based, at least in part, on the content of the collection of events. | 10-29-2015 |
20150324358 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO AUTOMATICALLY SUGGEST ELEMENTS FOR A CONTENT AGGREGATION SYSTEM - According to some embodiments, a suggestion platform associated with a content aggregation system may access a plurality of data context trigger criteria associated with potential business information content elements. Each data context trigger criteria may include, for example: (i) a data locator associated with a business information data structure, (ii) an operator, and (iii) a threshold. For each data context trigger criteria, it may be automatically determined if a value in the business information data structure satisfies the data context trigger criteria based on the operator and the threshold. When a data context trigger criteria is satisfied, it may be automatically suggested to a user that the potential business information content element associated with that data context trigger criteria be added to a user display of the content aggregation system. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324435 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS TO IDENTIFY QUERY RECOMMENDATONS - In various example embodiments, systems and methods to identify query recommendations are presented. The system receives a query from a device and associates the query with query recommendations. Next, the system generates a probability distribution for each of the query recommendations based on experimental information associated with each of the query recommendations. Then the system samples each of the probability distributions to identify a probability for each the corresponding query recommendations. The probabilities indicate the likelihood of the corresponding query recommendation being selected. Next, the system identifies displayable query recommendations based on the probabilities for each of the corresponding query recommendations. The system then communicates an interface to the device that includes the query and the displayable query recommendations. Finally, the system updates the experimental information associated with each of the displayable query recommendations responsive to identifying whether one of the displayable query recommendations was selected. | 11-12-2015 |
20150347422 | N-GRAM TOKENIZATION - A method and apparatus of a device that suggests a tokenized query completion for an input query prefix is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a query prefix from a client, wherein the query prefix includes a plurality of words. The device further generates a results set by searching a structured database using the query prefix for matches to the plurality of words in the query prefix. The device additionally determines a subset of query prefix that match specific fields of the results set by using the last N grams in the query prefix. In addition, the device ranks a tokenized query completion as a search suggestion using the query prefix, where the tokenized query completion includes a token that is a match between a matching word in the subset of query prefix and the corresponding specific field for the matching word. | 12-03-2015 |
20150347423 | METHODS FOR COMPLETING A USER SEARCH - A user may enter a user search into a search field on a webpage one character at a time. A backend of the webpage may receive each character of the user search as entered by the user and attempt to tokenize the user search into one or more tokens. If the last token (which may be the first token if only one token has been entered) is incomplete and/or not a word, the backend may determine possible completions of the last token based on past user searches by the user and/or other users. If the last token is a word, synonyms or other related tokens may be found for the last token. A plurality of suggested searches may be created and displayed on the webpage by using all the tokens except the last token combined with either a possible completion (if the last token is not a word) or a related token (if the last token is a word). | 12-03-2015 |
20150347503 | MULTI-DOMAIN QUERY COMPLETION - A method and apparatus of a device that performs a multi-domain query search is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a query prefix from a client of a user. The device further determines a plurality of search completions across the plurality of separate search domains. In addition, the device ranks the plurality of search completions based on a score calculated for each of the plurality of search completions determined by a corresponding search domain, where at least one of the plurality of search completions is used to generate a plurality of search results without an indication from the user and in response to receiving the query prefix. | 12-03-2015 |
20150363410 | SERVING FONT GLYPHS | 12-17-2015 |
20150370833 | VISUAL REFINEMENTS IN IMAGE SEARCH - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting visual refinements to an image search. A user device having a user interface submits an initial search query. The user device receives first image search results, each of the first image search results referencing one of a first set of images that are responsive to the initial search query. The user device receives an image query suggestion specifying a refined query and a representative image for the refined query. One or more images from the first set of images is responsive to the refined query, and the representative image is selected from a second set of images that are responsive to the refined query, the second set of images including the one or more images from the first set of images. At least a portion of the first image search results are presented in a results portion of the user interface. The image query suggestion is presented in a suggestion portion of the user interface. | 12-24-2015 |
20150370920 | COLUMN INTERFACE FOR NAVIGATING IN A USER INTERFACE - The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device provides, for display on a display device, a user interface including a first set of columns, two or more columns in the first set of columns each including two or more menu items. The electronic device receives a selection input. In response to receiving the selection input, in accordance with a determination that the selection input corresponds to selection of a first column the electronic device provides, for display on the display device, a second set of columns, two or more of the columns in the second set of columns corresponding to different subsets of menu items that were displayed in the first column that was selected in response to the selection input. | 12-24-2015 |
20160026644 | MOTOR VEHICLE INFOTAINMENT SYSTEM WITH AUTOMATIC SEARCH TERM COMPLETION - A method for operating an infotainment system of a motor vehicle for searching in a database in which at least one database entry with a distinct object identifier and corresponding metadata is stored is disclosed. When a search term is entered into an input field of an input unit, an input completion unit searches through a search history for a search term that matches the partial input already present in the input field. The input unit then completes the partial input in the search field on the basis of the search term found in order to provide an input suggestion. When the search term is entered, additionally a searching unit searches in the database for at least one database entry which has an object identifier or metadata that at least partially matches the partial input and/or updated content in the input field and this database entry is displayed to the user in a selection list that is different from the input field for selection. | 01-28-2016 |
20160034511 | INDEXING USER-DEFINED MINUTIAE - In one embodiment, a computing device receives text input from a user. The computing device determines an action by the user indicated in the text, and at least a part of a phrase in the text that indicates one or more topics associated with the action. The computing device determines whether the at least part of a phrase matches one or more phrases stored in an indexed database. When the at least part of a phrase does not match one or more phrases of the indexed database, then the computing device determines a complete phrase input by the user, and determines one or more topics to be associated with the complete phrase. The computing device stores the complete phrase as an instance of the complete phrase. The computing device determines whether at least a threshold number of instances of the complete phrase has been stored. | 02-04-2016 |
20160042076 | SEARCH RECOMMENDATION METHOD AND DEVICE - A search recommendation method and a search recommendation device are provided. The method comprises: receiving a query; generating an interactive question according to the query, and then providing the interactive question to a user; receiving an answer of the interactive question from the user, and then determining a level of the user according to the answer; and generating a recommendation according to the level of the user and the query and providing the recommendation to the user. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048556 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A SEARCH ENGINE CONTENT FILTER - This disclosure concerns a targeted search within sites/accounts with high cluster focus for a chosen segment. The method includes presenting, to a user, a computer interface for specifying one or more search terms for a search query, presenting at least one selectable item corresponding to at least one of an M score and a CFI score filter for the search query, generating an amended search query based on a selected item, and performing a search using the amended search query. | 02-18-2016 |
20160063006 | AUTO-COMPLETE SUGGESTIONS FOR STRUCTURED SEARCHES - A method is provided for offering auto-complete suggestions to structured search queries. The method is performed at a server system and includes receiving, from a client device, a partial search query that includes one or more search terms. The method further includes analyzing the one or more search terms of the partial search query to determine one or more auto-complete suggestions. At least one of the one or more auto-complete suggestions includes a respective predefined search operator distinct from the one or more search terms chosen from a plurality of predefined search operators based on a result of the analysis of the one or more search terms of the partial search query. The method further includes formatting, for concurrent display with the partial search query at the client device, the at least one of the one or more auto-complete suggestions that includes a predefined search operator. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063059 | SUGGESTION OF A BROAD-SPECTRUM LIST OF GROUPED NATURAL LANGUAGE SEARCH QUERY TERMS - The present disclosure relates to applying entity analytics to a natural language-based search engine. According to one embodiment, a search query having at least a first term is received. One or more second terms having a relationship to the first term is identified based on prior search queries. The relationship indicates that the first term has been observed with the second term in the prior search queries on at least a specified number of occasions over a specified duration. One or more predictive suggestions for completing the search query is generated. Each predictive suggestion includes at least the first term or an identified equivalent of the first term and at least one of the one or more second terms. | 03-03-2016 |
20160092459 | TRANSLATING A KEYWORD SEARCH INTO A STRUCTURED QUERY - Method and system to generate structured queries is described. The system may be configured to examine an input string submitted by a user via a search box and present suggestions that may include references to entities grouped by entity type. The search system examines the input string, determines one or more entity types that may correspond to the input string, and provides suggestions that may be the form of one or more of keywords and also in the form of values of or references to typed entities. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092506 | GENERATING SUGGESTED STRUCTURED QUERIES - Method and system to assist a user in formulating a search query is described. The system may be configured to examine an input string submitted by a user via a search box and present suggestions in the form of structured queries, determine an entity and an entity type that corresponds to the input string and generate search suggestions in the form of complex structured queries. The generated query may be presented on a display device of a user. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098416 | AUTO COMPLETE SEARCH BOX BASED ON THE USER'S CONTEXT TO REDUCE USER'S INPUT - In one embodiment, contextual information pertaining to a user's context may be ascertained. A request for suggested search queries pertaining to the user's context may be received via a device. One or more key words that are pertinent to the context may be ascertained. One or more suggested search queries may be provided based, at least in part, upon the one or more key words, wherein the one or more suggested search queries are provided for presentation via the device prior to receiving input from the user via a search box of the device. | 04-07-2016 |
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20160124970 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING ADAPTIVE KEYBOARD INTERFACE, AND METHOD FOR INPUTTING REPLY USING ADAPTIVE KEYBOARD BASED ON CONTENT OF CONVERSATION - A method for providing an adaptive keyboard interface is provided, which includes searching for at least one candidate message that is expected to be prepared by a user with reference to context information about a situation in which the user prepares a message; and if a first text object of text objects that are included in the at least one searched candidate message is selected by the user, providing at least one replacement text object having a degree of association with the first text object, which is equal to or higher than a predetermined level, based on the first text object | 05-05-2016 |
20160125027 | SEARCH SYSTEM, SEARCH PROGRAM, AND SEARCH-CONDITION INPUT METHOD - A search system with which a user can carry out an easy and quick operation by specifying a plurality of keywords by touch operations. The search system includes a keyword extracting unit that extracts an option of a keyword and displays the option in a list on the touch panel, and a search-condition setting unit that sets a search condition based on an operation of the user with respect to the option of the keyword. When a first keyword is selected by a touch operation from the option of the keyword, if the user slides a touch position on the touch panel, the search-condition setting unit sets the search condition depending on a direction of the slide on an assumption that a search operator of AND or OR is specified between the first keyword and a second keyword further selected by the user thereafter. | 05-05-2016 |
20160125076 | MUSIC RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM FOR VEHICLE AND METHOD THEREOF - An automotive music recommendation system may include: a data collector that collects a plurality of musical data from social data kept in a social network; a data analyzer that checks keywords and music metadata by analyzing the musical data; a music manager that creates a matching table by matching the music metadata with the keywords; and a music recommender that checks a keyword according to driving state data by a driver from the matching table and creates a recommendation list using at least one piece of music metadata matched with the keyword. The automotive music recommendation system may recommend music to the driver in accordance with a driving condition on the basis of social data. | 05-05-2016 |
20160132509 | COMPLEX QUERY HANDLING - Processing a query for a database includes: receiving a portion of a query from a client device in a server implemented by at least one processor, the portion of the query comprising an incomplete component; determining that the incomplete component is one of multiple predefined types with the server; providing the incomplete component to an auto-complete function specific to the determined type of the incomplete component; receiving in the server a suggestion for completing the query from the auto-complete function, the suggestion being specific to the type of the incomplete component; and providing the suggestion from the server to the client device. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140165 | SYSTEM TO GENERATE RELATED SEARCH QUERIES - Systems and methods described herein may operate to receive, at a search service, a first query from a user device corresponding to a current user of the search service, analyze existing search queries performed by users of the search service, and selectively provide, to the user device, a second query of the existing search queries as at least one of: a refinement of the first query based on determining that the second query includes all keywords in the first query, or an alternative to the first query based on determining that the second query lacks at least one keyword in the first query. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140214 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUGMENTING A SEARCH QUERY - System and method for augmenting a search query by identifying at least one visual element suggestion for the search query is disclosed. | 05-19-2016 |
20160140215 | EXTERNAL ACTION SUGGESTIONS IN SEARCH RESULTS - Methods for suggesting in search results an action that is to be performed in an external application based on a previous search query are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from an application on a device, a search query that was previously submitted by a user or another user, and providing, as a result of the search query, an interface to perform an action to launch an external application on the device, wherein the action was previously selected by the user or the other user in response to previous results of the search query. Systems, graphical user interfaces, and machine-readable media are also provided. | 05-19-2016 |
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20160188608 | INCREMENTAL QUERY REFINEMENT - A method of incrementally refining queries and updating query result lists without requiring a user to provide an explicit indicator of query submission. In the method, one or more query related character patterns are defined. Entry of query defining characters by a user is monitored to detect entry of a defined query related character pattern. The user is provided with one or more suggested query refinement options and an updated query result list each time a defined query related character pattern is detected. The query related character patterns may be a character pattern that indicates a word has been input by the user. | 06-30-2016 |
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