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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2006
Oliver Bayley, Pacifica, CA (US);
Liang-yu (Tom) Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samantha Marie Tripodi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oliver Bayley, Pacifica, CA (US);
Liang-yu (Tom) Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samantha Marie Tripodi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing search results in visually illustrative concept format is disclosed. Concepts relating to a query term are identified. The search results comprise a conceptual search result entry for each identified concept. Each conceptual search result entry includes at least a visual content and textual content relating to its respective identified concept. The content for a given conceptual search result entry can come from different sources.