Excalibur Ip, LLC

Yahoo Assets LLC

Yahoo! Inc.

Oath Inc.

Verizon Media Inc.

Hui Wu

Shenhong Zhu

Hang Su

Huming Wu

Jiuhe Gan

Xiaobing Han

Mingtian Liu

Scott J Gaffney

Chun Ming Sze

Yuan Zhang

Kazuhiro Nakao

Zhongqiang Chen

Anlei Dong

Hongbo Deng

Ethan Batraski

Olivia Franklin

Xiangli Kong

The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources that include person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, obtaining a second set of suggestions based on information from an additional data source, ranking the first and second sets of suggestions to generate a ranked list of suggestions, and presenting at least some of the ranked suggestions.

Methods, systems and techniques for ranking personalized and generic search query suggestions

The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on a number of data sources including person's personal data and non-personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining a first set of suggestions based on information from a first data source, presenting the first set of suggestions to the person, and presenting, to the person, a second set of suggestions obtained from a person corpus when a portion of the person corpus relevant to the input is accessible. The person corpus may be from a second data source that is private to the person.

Methods, systems and techniques for providing search query suggestions based on non-personal data and user personal data according to availability of user personal data

A location-aware search assist capability identifies location-aware search query suggestions using location information associated with the location-aware search query suggestions. A user's search query input and location and a location associated with each location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be used to identify a set of search query suggestions for presentation to the user. Location-aware search query suggestion candidates may be ranked in accordance with a closeness of each one's location to the user's location. The ranking may be performed using a score, such as a popularity score associated with each search query suggestion candidate. The location-aware search query suggestion candidates having a location closer to the user's location may be promoted by adjusting each candidate's popularity score upward, and the search query suggestion candidates that are farther away from the user's location may be demoted by adjusting each such candidate's popularity score downward.

Location-awareness search assistance system and method

The present teaching, which includes methods, systems and computer-readable media, relates to providing query suggestions based on multiple data sources including at least person's personal data. The disclosed techniques may include receiving an input from a person, obtaining one or more suggestions based on a person corpus derived from at least one data source private to the person, and presenting at least the one or more suggestions.

Methods, systems and techniques for personalized search query suggestions

In one embodiment, a portion of a search query may be obtained from a client device. A set of suggested search queries may be obtained or generated from a plurality of phrases stored in memory, where the portion of the search query matches a portion of each suggested search query in the set of suggested search queries. The set of suggested search queries may be provided to the client device. The plurality of phrases may include phrases extracted from documents published via a network.

Enhance search assist system's freshness by extracting phrases from news articles

Methods, systems and programming for providing query suggestions based on user's previous search query. In one example, an input including a prefix of a first query is received from a user in a user session. At least a second query that was previously received from the user in the user session is then obtained. A third query is obtained based on the second query and the prefix of the first query. One or more query suggestions are provided to the user as a response to the input. The one or more query suggestions include the third query.

Contextual based search suggestion

Briefly, embodiments of methods and/or systems for providing enhancements to search query processing are disclosed.

Query suggestions

Methods, systems, and programming for refreshing web page URL snapshots are disclosed. A plurality of URLs is received. URLs from the plurality of URLs are selected to schedule for refreshment of snapshots corresponding to web pages associated with the URLs. A plurality of snapshots is generated, each snapshot associated with a corresponding URL of the selected URLs scheduled for refreshment. The plurality of snapshots is provided for display, wherein each snapshot is a viewable and actionable link to the corresponding URL the snapshot is associated with.

Snapshot refreshment for search results page preview

Methods, systems, and programming for providing search previews is disclosed. At least one input is received. At least one query suggestion is generated based on the at least one input. The at least one query suggestion is displayed in a first display area. At least one web page preview is generated based on the at least one input. The at least one web page preview is displayed in a second display area. Each web page preview is viewable and actionable.

Instant search results with page previews

Methods, systems, and programming for providing web page snapshots are disclosed. A URL is received. A snapshot of the web page associated with the URL is generated. A plurality of features is extracted from the snapshot. A determination is made regarding whether the snapshot is high quality based on the plurality of extracted features of the snapshot. The generated snapshot is provided as a viewable and actionable link to the URL.

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Hui Wu