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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Anwis Das, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abhinandan Sujit Das, Cupertino, CA (US);
Nitin Gupta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for providing query suggestions to a user based on one or more past queries submitted by the user. Candidate query suggestions responsive to a current query may be identified. A candidate query similarity measure may be determined for a given candidate query suggestion based on matching entities related to the given candidate query suggestion and the one or more past queries. In some implementations the similarity measure may be based on cumulative entity scores of the matching entities that may optionally be based on at least one of inverse popularity of the matching entities, and how recent a past query is. In some implementations a ranking of the candidate query suggestions may be adjusted based on the similarity measure. A given candidate query suggestion may be selected as a query suggestion based on at least one of the adjusted ranking and the candidate query similarity measure.