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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2017
Applicant:
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Neelakantan Sundaresan, Mountain View, CA (US);
Nishith Parikh, Fremont, CA (US);
Assignee:
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 16/2453 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06Q 30/06 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24534 (2019.01); G06F 16/2228 (2019.01); G06F 16/3338 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0625 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for a search based on diversity is described. The system calculates a diversity index for a result set comprising results for a query. The diversity index is a measure of diversity among the results of the query. The diversity index relates to differences among the results. The system compares the diversity index to a threshold value. Finally, the system expands the query with one or more query terms based on the comparison.