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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012

Filed:

Apr. 24, 2008
Applicants:

Digvijay Singh Lamba, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Wang Chee Lam, San Jose, CA (US);

Michel A. Tourn, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Digvijay Singh Lamba, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Wang Chee Lam, San Jose, CA (US);

Michel A. Tourn, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., Bentonville, AR (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Determining one or more concepts associated with a query is disclosed. A query is received. A list of concepts and associated scores is received. The concepts fit within a concept hierarchy. A density function is used to evaluate the received concepts. One or more concepts are associated with the query based at least in part on the results of the density function.


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