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Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2013
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Thomas M. Annau, San Carlos, CA (US);

Gregory B. Lindahl, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Samuel Makonnen, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Markson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Keith Peters, San Francisco, CA (US);

Robert Michael Saliba, San Francisco, CA (US);

Al Sary, Richmond, CA (US);

Rich Skrenta, San Carlos, CA (US);

Dan Swartz, Mountain View, CA (US);

Robert N. Truel, San Carlos, CA (US);

Timothy Walters, Redwood City, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01); G06F 17/30663 (2013.01); G06F 17/30861 (2013.01);
Abstract

A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least one key word in a search query and generate an alternative search query from the at least one key word, the alternative search query being based at least on computing an intermediary search of a plurality of characters from the at least one key word as the plurality of characters are being typed by a user, and for use in searching unaltered internet documents. Also a web server that may be configured to generate a first search result based on the alternative search query and cause display of the first search result in a web browser.


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