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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2004
Applicant:
H. Scott Roy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventor:
H. Scott Roy, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Providing a search result in some embodiments comprises receiving a user query, determining whether an equivalent query of the user query is included in a pre-existing query set wherein the pre-existing query set is associated with an answer, and providing the answer. Providing a search result in some embodiments comprises receiving a user query, determining that an equivalent query of the user query is not included in any of a plurality of existing query sets, and adding the user query to one of the plurality of pre-existing query sets.