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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:
May. 20, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 11, 2008
Applicant:

Christopher Olston, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Christopher Olston, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

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

A method and a system are provided for exploring a large textual data set via interactive aggregation. In one example, the method includes receiving the large textual data set and an original query template, building an index for the query template, wherein the building the index comprises ordering the index a particular way to optimize query time, receiving one or more bindings for the original query template, computing an answer to the original query template using the index and the one or more bindings, and anticipating one or more future queries that a user may submit and that are related to the original query template.


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