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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:
Apr. 01, 2014

Filed:

Jun. 07, 2012
Applicants:

Trystan G. Upstill, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Abhishek Das, San Francisco, CA (US);

Srinivasan Venkatachary, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shravya R. Shetty, Mountain View, CA (US);

Bin Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jack W. Menzel, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Trystan G. Upstill, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Abhishek Das, San Francisco, CA (US);

Srinivasan Venkatachary, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shravya R. Shetty, Mountain View, CA (US);

Bin Liu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jack W. Menzel, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

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

A method includes receiving a query that that is unstructured for a plurality databases; receiving data identifying resources that are determined to be responsive to the query, each resource associated with a search score that defines a respective position of the resource in an order of responsiveness to the query; determining, a service requirement from the terms of the query; determining, for each of the databases, a service requirement score for the database; for each resource that is associated with one of the databases, adjusting the search score based on the service requirement score for the database; generating search results, each search result identify a corresponding resource that was determined to be responsive to the query, and the search results being ordered according to the respective search scores and adjusted search scores of the resources.


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