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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2021
Applicant:
Rovi Product Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Prabhat Gupta, Uttar Pradesh, IN;
Manik Malhotra, New Delhi, IN;
Assignee:
Rovi Product Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/78 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24575 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/7867 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for identifying a category of a search term and providing search results subject to the identified category. These systems and methods may be performed by a media guidance application. The media guidance application may receive a search term that may correspond to different categories of items, and the media guidance application may identify a category that the search term is most likely related to using a hierarchical structure. The media guidance application may limit the search to the identified category of items.