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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:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2011
Edward Stanley Ott, Iv, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Keith David Saft, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marco Boerries, Los Altos, CA (US);
Meher Tendjoukian, Burlingame, CA (US);
Paul Yiu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Edward Stanley Ott, IV, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Keith David Saft, San Francisco, CA (US);
Marco Boerries, Los Altos, CA (US);
Meher Tendjoukian, Burlingame, CA (US);
Paul Yiu, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for searching data and grouping search results into clusters that are ordered according to search relevance. Each cluster comprises one or more data type, such as images, web pages, local information, news, advertisements, and the like. In one embodiment, a search term is evaluated for related concepts indicating categories of data sources to search. Data sources may also be identified by context information such as a location of a client device, a currently running application, and the like. Search results in each cluster are ordered by relevance and each cluster is given a score based on an aggregate of the relevance within the cluster. Each cluster score may be modified based on one or more corresponding concepts and/or context information. The clusters are ordered based on the modified scores. Content, including advertisements, may also be added to the ordered list to appear as another cluster.