METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING AN ORDER OF PRESENTATION OF SEARCH RESULTS

Patent №

US 9,779,166

Granted

2017-10-03

Filed 2014

Owner

EBAY INC.

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14313951

A method and system for determining an order of presentation of the search results is provided. An example system comprises a search request detector, a search engine, and an intermingler. The search request detector may be configured to receive a search request, and the search engine may be configured to determine search results based on the search request. The search results may comprise a first set of items of a first type and a second set of items of a second type. The number of items in the first set and the number of items in the second may reflect a predetermined target ratio. The intermingler may be configured to determine an order of presentation of the search results in a list of search results based on the target ratio.

AI classification

Natural language0.99
Planning0.94
AI hardware0.90
Knowledge representation0.83
Machine learning0.52
Evolutionary computation0.13
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

EBAY INC.

assignment · 349340628

Assignors

SUN, KEN, GHATARE, SANJAY PUNDLKRAO, DUMON, OLIVIER G., NETZLOFF, JULIE, REHMAN, MUHAMMAD FAISAL, MCDONALD, RYAN

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