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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2013
Iac Search & Media, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Vaijanath N. Rao, Sausalito, CA (US);
Bhawna Singh, Fremont, CA (US);
IAC Search & Media, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
A question and answer system for providing results to requests comprising an online system and an offline system. The offline system includes a file system, a hierarchical database and an index controller having at least one reducer that retrieves content from the file system and at least one writer that maintains the data store with the content retrieved by the reducer, and maintains the hierarchical database with data reflecting the content in the data store. The offline system includes an image queue, an index controller that updates the image queue with data representing content in the data store that include images, an image extraction service having a thumbnailer generating thumbnails for the images, an uploader and at least one static image server, the uploader uploading the thumbnails and images to the static image server.