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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2012
Filed:
May. 07, 2004
Eric Noel Billingsley, Campbell, CA (US);
Louis Marcel Gino Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Aditya Arora, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Noel Billingsley, Campbell, CA (US);
Louis Marcel Gino Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Aditya Arora, Fremont, CA (US);
eBay Inc., SAn Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system facilitate a search of an information resource. The system identifies data items within the information resource and determines a respective attribute value from each data item. The system analyzes the attribute values to identify a distribution of the data items based on a predetermined range of attribute values that are associated with the first attribute and determines if the identified distribution of data items facilitates the search of the information resource.