CLUSTERED SEARCH PROCESSING

Patent №

US 7,630,972

Granted

2009-12-08

Filed 2007

Owner

YAHOO! INC.

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11651102

Methods and apparatus for searching data and grouping search results into clusters that are ordered according to search relevance. Each cluster includes one or more data type, such as images, web pages, local information, news, advertisements, and the like. In one embodiment, a search term is evaluated for related concepts indicating categories of data sources to search. Data sources may also be identified by context information such as a location of a client device, a currently running application, and the like. Search results in each cluster are ordered by relevance and each cluster is given a score based on an aggregate of the relevance within the cluster. Each cluster score may be modified based on one or more corresponding concepts and/or context information. The clusters are ordered based on the modified scores. Content, including advertisements, may also be added to the ordered list to appear as another cluster.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationAI hardwareG06F 16/9035G06F 16/951G06F 16/9535G06F 16/9536G06F 16/9538Y10S 707/99933

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Machine learning0.98
Knowledge representation0.98
AI hardware0.90
Planning0.19
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

YAHOO! INC.

assignment · 189350697

Assignors

OTT, IV, EDWARD STANLEY, SAFT, KEITH DAVID, BOERRIES, MARCO, TENDJOUKIAN, MEHER, YIU, PAUL

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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