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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 02, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 07, 2006
Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vanja Josifovski, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Christopher Olston, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);
Marcus Felipe Fontoura, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Vanja Josifovski, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Christopher Olston, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Andrew Tomkins, San Jose, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An improved system and method is provided for searching a collection of objects that may be located in hierarchies of auxiliary information for retrieval of response objects. A framework to perform a generalization search in hierarchies may be used to generalize a search by moving up to a higher level in a hierarchy of taxonomies or to specialize a search by moving down to a lower level in the hierarchy of taxonomies. Once the system may decide to enumerate response objects at a particular level of generalization, a budgeted generalization search may be used for enumerating a set of response objects within a budgeted cost.