Presenting Search Term Refinements

Patent №

US 8,577,911

Granted

2013-11-05

Filed 2011

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

2

nlp · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13070264

Systems, software, and computer-implemented methods can be used to present search results and search refinement suggestions identified in response to a search query using a search refinement wheel. In response to receiving a search query, a set of suggested query refinements are obtained. A spoke graph structure processable to present a visual representation of the search query and at least a portion of the set of the at least one search query refinements is generated, where the search query is represented by a first node in the visual representation and each of the portion of the set of the search query refinements is represented by an individual spoke in the visual representation that can be activated to generate a corresponding new search query. The generated graph can be provided in response to the search query, e.g., to a client device from which the search query is received.

Natural languagePlanningG06F 16/3325G06F 16/00G06F 16/3328

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.25
Evolutionary computation0.13
Vision0.10
Knowledge representation0.10
Machine learning0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 263230642

Assignors

STEPINSKI, ADAM, STEWART, MARGARET

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

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