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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 18, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2010
Ramesh R. Sarukkai, Union City, CA (US);
David Duane Hall, New York, NY (US);
Wei Dai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ulf Sigurd Carlin, Jakobsli, NO;
Ramesh R. Sarukkai, Union City, CA (US);
David Duane Hall, New York, NY (US);
Wei Dai, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ulf Sigurd Carlin, Jakobsli, NO;
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for identifying premium content items (such as video content items) that are responsive to a query. According to one embodiment, a method for identifying one or more items of video content responsive to a given query comprises receiving a query comprising one or more terms from a given user, identifying one or more items of video content responsive to the received query and generating a result set comprising one or more links to the one or more items of video content responsive to the received query. The one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are identified and the one or more links in the result set associated with items of premium video content are filtered on the basis of information associated with the user from which the query was received.