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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 26, 2014
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mark Pearson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simon Tong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30864 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for improved searching are described. In one of the described methods, a user enters a search query, and in response, a search engine receives a substantially complete initial search result set having a plurality of ranked article identifiers. The search engine automatically selects at least one of the article identifiers and provides a final result set in which the selected article identifier is ranked higher than in the initial search result set.