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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:
Apr. 13, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 21, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Hui Wu, White Plains, NY (US);

Rogerio S. Feris, Hartford, CT (US);

Yu Cheng, Ossining, NY (US);

Xiaoxiao Guo, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/583 (2019.01); G06F 16/242 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/5838 (2019.01); G06F 16/243 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 40/253 (2020.01);
Abstract

A search engine is modified to perform increasingly precise image searching using iterative Natural Language (NL) interactions. From an NL search input, the modification extracts a set of input features, which includes a set of response features corresponding to an NL statement in the NL search input and a set of image features from a seed image in the NL search input. The modification performs image analysis on an image result in a result set of a query including at least some of the input features. In a next iteration of NL interactions, at least some of the result set is provided. An NL response in the iteration is added to a cumulative NL basis, and a revised result set is provided, which includes a new image result corresponding to a new response feature extracted from the cumulative NL basis.


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