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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 11, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2005
Nicholas David Posner, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ramana M. Idury, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Douglas Henderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Randall Scott Shoup, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vijay Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Louis Marcel Gino Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Anselm Paul Baird-smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Nelson, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Raghav Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Raffi Tutundjian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Preston Grant Smalley, Danville, CA (US);
Alvaro Bolivar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nicholas David Posner, San Carlos, CA (US);
Ramana M. Idury, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Richard Douglas Henderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Randall Scott Shoup, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vijay Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Louis Marcel Gino Monier, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Anselm Paul Baird-Smith, San Jose, CA (US);
Thomas Nelson, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Raghav Gupta, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Raffi Tutundjian, San Francisco, CA (US);
Preston Grant Smalley, Danville, CA (US);
Alvaro Bolivar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system to process a data search request. The system includes a query controller module to receive the data search request that includes constraints; a reduced constraint builder module to formulate a plurality of search definitions that are formulated to exclude at least one constraint; and a search engine to perform searches of a data source to generate search results and to utilize the search results to calculate counts of data items that respectively correspond to the search definitions. The query controller module communicates the counts of data items and the corresponding search definitions to a client machine. Each of the search definitions is formulated to include a constraint set.