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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2019
Filed:
May. 18, 2017
Hipmunk, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Julian Goldstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Navin Lal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zak Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard Shaffer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zohaib Ahmed, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hipmunk, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A machine is configured to access a search phrase or other communicated phrase and deconstruct the accessed phrase into multiple sub-phrases. The machine performs an analysis of n-grams that occur within the sub-phrases, generates a set of potentially different sub-phrases from the n-grams, and selects which data source among multiple available video sources should be accessed for each generated sub-phrase in the generated set. For example, the machine may allocate each generated sub-phrase to a corresponding data source and cause the corresponding data source to execute a query based on its corresponding sub-phrase. Thus, the machine chooses from which data source to obtain partial search results that correspond to each sub-phrase generated based on the analyzed n-grams in the accessed phrase.