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Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2011
Applicant:

Andrew J. Palay, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventor:

Andrew J. Palay, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30312 (2013.01); G06F 17/30613 (2013.01); G06F 17/30663 (2013.01); G06F 17/30684 (2013.01);
Abstract

A conversation server system having one or more processors and memory stores a plurality of index components in an index, a respective index entry corresponding to a respective term and having a plurality of index components, a respective index component of the respective index entry identifying a message that is associated with the respective term. The server receives a first message, associates the first message with a conversation having at least one other message and stores, in the index, a plurality of first-message index components that each include an identifier of the first message. The first-message index components include one or more index components indicative of a plurality of message terms in the first message and one or more index components indicative of one or more conversation terms in the conversation, the one or more conversation terms comprising one or more terms that are not in the first message.


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