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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2024
Walmart Apollo, Llc, Bentonville, AR (US);
Manik Goyal, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Ari Kast, Glen Ridge, NJ (US);
Rashad Eletreby, Burlington, NJ (US);
Xinyi Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Binwei Yang, Milpitas, CA (US);
Cun Mu, New York, NY (US);
Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US);
Abstract
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices storing computing instructions that, when run on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to execute operations: storing image hashes corresponding to images for items offered via an electronic platform; receiving, from a computing device, a search query via a search engine included on the electronic platform; executing a relevance function; executing a visual diversity ranking function that reorders the relevant set of search results to generate a ranked set of search results, wherein the visual diversity ranking function utilizes the image hashes corresponding to the subset of the items to reorder the relevant set of search results; and transmitting the ranked set of search results to the computing device. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.