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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 02, 2005
Applicants:

Kevin Oliver, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Hansma, San Francisco, CA (US);

Craig Weissman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul Nakada, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeanine Walters, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Oliver, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Hansma, San Francisco, CA (US);

Craig Weissman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Paul Nakada, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jeanine Walters, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

salesforce.com, inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30286 (2013.01); G06F 17/30386 (2013.01); G06F 17/30424 (2013.01);
Abstract

Search systems and methods for searching structured data and enhancing the relevancy of search results provided to a requesting user or application. Enhanced search results are provided by searching a cache of a user's most recently used items to eliminate or reduce search indexing latency. Also, more relevant search results are provided by re-ranking results based on use history, data security models and/or hierarchical user role models. Further, enhanced search results are provided by including user information in the search index.


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