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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:
Dec. 31, 2024

Filed:

May. 08, 2020
Applicant:

Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan, Fremont, CA (US);

Amit Jaiswal, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 16/9538 (2019.01); G06F 16/3349 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01);
Abstract

A search engine is provided that generates search results proportional to a natural distribution. Search results identified and ranked by the search engine for a search query are redistributed so that a fixed number of top ranked search results include search result attributes proportional to the natural distribution, as determined from interaction tracking of prior search results. A natural distribution index mapping prior search queries to search result attributes and a proportional representation of interactions with the search result attributes is generated. The natural distribution is determined from the proportional representation of interactions. The search engine redistributes the fixed number of top ranked search results by minimizing a gap between the ranked set of search results for the search query and the natural distribution.


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