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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2002
Filed:
Nov. 30, 1998
Michael Z. Moricz, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Louis M. Monier, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jean-Claude Michelou, San Mateo, CA (US);
Compaq Information Technologies Group, LP, Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A dynamic search result refinement for refining a general search query into a more specific search query. For a general search query, a user is presented with a list of more specific queries. The entries in the list selected from a log-file of queries according to the index frequency of each query. The user can choose a new query from the list of more specific queries and run a database search. The user also has the option to be presented with a list of even more specific queries based on the chosen query and to have a database search run with one of these queries.