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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2000
Benjamin Thomas Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sergey Brin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sanjay Ghemawat, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Abraham Bauer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Benjamin Thomas Smith, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sergey Brin, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sanjay Ghemawat, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Abraham Bauer, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google, Inc., Mountainview, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention allow a user to submit an ambiguous search query and to receive relevant search results. In one embodiment, a sequence of numbers received from a user of a standard telephone keypad is translated into a set of potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences. These potentially corresponding alphanumeric sequences are provided as an input to a conventional search engine, using a boolean 'OR' expression, and the search results are presented to the user. The search engine effectively limits search results to those in which the user was likely interested.