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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Wenyan Hu, Shanghai, CN;
Xiaodi Zhang, New York, NY (US);
Alvaro Bolivar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Randall Scott Shoup, San Francisco, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In various exemplary embodiments, systems and associated methods to predict search results in an electronic environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method to provide responses to a search request includes receiving, from an end-user, one or more characters that form a portion of the search request. Prior to receiving a completed version of the search request from the end-user, a plurality of keywords is predicted based on the one or more characters. The prediction is based on the most probable keywords selected from a plurality of prior requests stored in a database. A plurality of responses is prepared based on the most probable keywords. The responses are fit within a single communications packet and returned as a reply to the search request. Other systems and methods are disclosed.