METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IDENTIFYING RELATED SEARCHES IN A DATABASE SEARCH SYSTEM

Patent №

US 7,657,555

Granted

2010-02-02

Filed 2005

Owner

OVERTURE SERVICES, INC.

+1 more

Lab

AI components

4

ml · nlp · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11092182

A method of generating a search result list also provides related searches for use by a searcher. Search listings which generate a match with a search request submitted by the searcher are identified in a pay-for-placement database which includes a plurality of search listings. Related search listings contained in a related search database generated from the pay-for-placement database are identified as relevant to the search request. A search result list is returned to the searcher including the identified search listings and one or more of the identified search listings.

Machine learningNatural languagePlanningEvolutionary computationG06F 16/9538G06F 16/951G06Q 30/0275G06Q 30/0277G06Q 40/04Y10S 707/99933Y10S 707/99942Y10S 707/99943

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language1.00
Machine learning0.76
Evolutionary computation0.76
AI hardware0.48
Knowledge representation0.27
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

OVERTURE SERVICES, INC.

merger · 164340155

GOTO.COM, INC.

assignment · 164340166

Assignors

ROREX, PHILLIP G., SOULANILLE, THOMAS A., HAUGAARD, BRADLEY R.

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

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