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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:
Mar. 24, 2015

Filed:

Nov. 03, 2011
Applicants:

Emily Johnston, San Francisco, CA (US);

George M. N. Ruban, Somerville, MA (US);

David Black, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sarah J. Bell, Providence, RI (US);

Gabriel Wolosin, San Mateo, CA (US);

David Kogan, Natick, MA (US);

Inventors:

Emily Johnston, San Francisco, CA (US);

George M. N. Ruban, Somerville, MA (US);

David Black, Mountain View, CA (US);

Sarah J. Bell, Providence, RI (US);

Gabriel Wolosin, San Mateo, CA (US);

David Kogan, Natick, MA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for selectively presenting search results responsive to search query suggestions. In one aspect includes receiving a partial search query including one or more characters; generating a first query suggestion based on the partial search query; determining whether the first query suggestion meets a filtering criterion, where the filtering criterion is a criterion specifying one or more filtering criterion topics against which the first query suggestion is evaluated independent of search results responsive to the first query suggestion; providing the first query suggestion; and in response to determining that the first query suggestion meets the filtering criterion, preventing a first set of one or more images responsive to the first query suggestion from being presented to a user.


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