PRESENTING SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON USER-CUSTOMIZABLE CRITERIA

Patent №

US 8,744,978

Granted

2014-06-03

Filed 2009

Owner

YAHOO! INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

12506926

In one embodiment, ranking search results generated in response to search queries comprises: receiving, a search query from a user; identifying a plurality of network contents in response to the search query; determining one or more ranking criteria for the search query; presenting the ranking criteria to the user; receiving from the user one or more weights assigned to one or more of the ranking criteria; ranking the identified network contents based on the ranking criteria and the weights; and presenting the network contents to the user in an order according to their ranking.

AI classification

Knowledge representation1.00
Machine learning1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.97
Natural language0.95
Vision0.05
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

YAHOO! INC.

assignment · 229850478

Assignors

ZHUANG, ZIMING, CHEN, LONGBIN

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

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