Huawei Technologies Co., Limited

Yahoo! Inc.

Christa Maria Stelzmuller

Michael Spiegelman

David E Brown

Pierre Schiro

Bipin Suresh

Adam Korman

Daniel Baird

Alexander Stephen Toth

Poorna Chandra Gowda Bannikuppe Ramachandra

Siddhartha S Sahay

Lori Ann Sutton

Jagadeshwar R Nomula

A method for making a playlist available to the public, in which the playlist comprises user-defined descriptor information. The user-defined descriptor information is entered as free form text or prose.

Method for sharing and searching playlists

The present disclosure provides a method for making a playlist available to the public. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for creating a playlist comprising user-defined descriptor information. In another embodiment, the present disclosure provides a method for searching for such public playlists.

The disclosure describes search systems and methods in which exact token searches, spelling suggestions, and split-token searches are used in conjunction to return search results to the user. Depending on the number and relevancy of results for the search query results from each of the steps the results are either merged or discarded into the final result set. The split-token search is adapted to generate two split-tokens from the token(s) of the search query in anticipation that the search token(s) is misspelled. As the location of the misspelling is unknown, the split-token search widens the scope of the results provided in response to the search. In an embodiment, the split-token search includes performing a prefix search for tokens matching a prefix split-token and a postfix search for tokens matching a postfix split-token. In an embodiment, the index is specially adapted to allow the postfix search to be performed more efficiently.

System and method for enhanced text matching

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Long Beach, CA, United States of America

Christa Maria Stelzmuller