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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2016
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, a system and associated method for prioritizing search results in an electronic environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, a plurality of characters is received from an end-user as a query. A plurality of equivalent keywords is selected responsive to the query with each of the equivalent keywords being evaluated based on a probability of matching the query of the end-user. A rank of each of the equivalent keywords is determined to form a response, which is then transmitted to the end-user. Other methods and related systems are disclosed.