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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2020
Methods and apparatus for automatically providing a ranking of items in response to a search request
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Ajit Varghese Puthenputhussery, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sachin Adlakha, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alessandro Magnani, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Nikita Maple Sudan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sapeksha Virinchi Vemulapati, San Francisco, CA (US);
Zhenrui Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Isha Ghai, Mountain View, CA (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
This application relates to apparatus and methods for ranking search results. In some examples, a computing device receives item data identifying items for a search query provided by a user. The computing determines, for each item, a first value based on a relevance of the item to the search query. The computing device also determines user engagement data for the user, where the user engagement data identifies engagements by the user on a webpage. The computing device determines, for each item, a second value based on the user engagement data. In some examples, the computing device determines the first values and second values by executing one or more machine learning models. The computing device further determines a ranking of the plurality of items based on the first values and the second values. The computing may transmit the ranking of the plurality of items, such as to a web server.