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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 02, 2012
Aditya Vailaya, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiang Wu, Union City, CA (US);
Manish Rathi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kirk Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Aditya Vailaya, San Jose, CA (US);
Jiang Wu, Union City, CA (US);
Manish Rathi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kirk Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
BARNESANDNOBLE.COM LLC, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A system, method and computer program product for processing a search query includes receiving a search query containing one or more terms; processing the query to add one or more bi-words as terms to the query; searching a search index embodied on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having product identifiers and logical parts of the product identifiers indexed into different fields in the index; generating a score based on at least some of the terms matching the product identifiers and the individual logical parts of the product identifiers in the different fields in the index, wherein bi-words are weighted higher than the terms having only one word and individual terms are weighted higher when matching in the product identifier fields of the index; and selecting and outputting an indicator of product identifiers ranked by their scores.