METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FACILITATING REFINEMENT OF A SEARCH

Patent №

US 7,165,080

Granted

2007-01-16

Filed 2001

Owner

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

Lab

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09984088

A receiver receives from a search engine search results consisting of at least one search item associated with at least one context item relating to the search item. A modifier modifies the search results by associating at least one context item with data for enabling the user to cause the search results to be filtered in accordance with that context item by selecting that context item. A supplier supplies the modified search results to the user.

Natural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/58G06F 16/338G06F 16/78G06F 16/951G06F 16/9538Y10S 707/99937Y10S 707/99954

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Natural language0.99
AI hardware0.60
Machine learning0.23
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA

assignment · 123620213

Assignors

KOTCHEFF, AARON WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, ROSE, ANTHONY GERARD, KOTCHEFF, AARON WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER, ROSE, ANTHONY GERARD

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