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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:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 10, 2008
Applicants:
Jeffrey Bonforte, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary Clayton, Daly City, CA (US);
Victor Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey Bonforte, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gary Clayton, Daly City, CA (US);
Victor Chen, Saratoga, CA (US);
Assignee:
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G10L 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and apparatus for incorporating voice recognition into a search engine is provided. The phonetic voice recognition system lacking grammar and spell checking is used. The output of the phonetic voice recognition system is forwarded to a search engine. The search engine performs disambiguation and relevancy analysis based on past similar queries. Search engine user behavior is recorded to improve the accuracy. Recorded statistics are used to rank results pages.