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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2015
Applicant:
Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Inventors:
Amit Goyal, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hongbo Deng, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
OATH INC., New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/9035 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/334 (2019.01); G06F 16/3322 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01);
Abstract
The present teaching relates to providing a query suggestion. In one example, a request is received for query suggestions with respect to a query prefix input by a user. A plurality of query suggestions is determined based on the query prefix and a preceding query input by the user. A degree of popularity of the preceding query is determined. One or more query suggestions are selected from the plurality of query suggestions based on the degree of popularity of the preceding query. The one or more query suggestions are provided as a response to the request.