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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Anoop Sinha, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chetan V. Kale, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jason Lee Douglas, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kelvin So, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Vishnu Vardhan Reddy Konda, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus that generates a plurality of ranked query results from a query over a plurality of separate search domains. In this embodiment, the device receives the query and determines a plurality of results across the plurality of separate search domains using the query. The device further characterizes the query. In addition, the device ranks the plurality of results based on a score calculated for each of the plurality of results determined by a corresponding search domain and the query characterization, where the query characterization indicates a query type.