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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 06, 2006
Applicants:
Anand Madhavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew Carinio, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Darshan Kantak, Pasadena, CA (US);
Inventors:
Anand Madhavan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Matthew Carinio, San Luis Obispo, CA (US);
Darshan Kantak, Pasadena, CA (US);
Assignee:
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A system and method to facilitate expansion, disambiguation, and optimization of search queries over a network wherein an original query received from a user is parsed to obtain at least one query term. A plurality of keywords related contextually to one or more query terms are further retrieved from a database. Finally, a set of modified queries is generated, each modified query further comprising at least one query term and at least one retrieved keyword.