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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 07, 2018
Applicant:

Verizon Media Inc., New York, NY (US);

Inventors:

Lizi Zhang, Urbana, IL (US);

Hongbo Deng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Amit Goyal, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Yi Chang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

VERIZON MEDIA INC., New York, NY (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3322 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0256 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for determining and suggesting query auto-completions (QACs). In some embodiments, when a user is inputting a search query, the disclosed systems and methods can provide a QAC suggestion based on the inputted text in addition to application programs installed and/or executing on the user's device.


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