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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2014
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Coyle, Los Altos, CA (US);
Rohit Dinakar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Virali Sheth, Milpitas, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for expanding search results may include (1) identifying, within results of a search, a document that is a member of a document family that includes another document (or multiple other documents), (2) determining that a user has made a selection to include the document family within the results of the search, (3) creating a data map that includes a representation of the document identified within the results of the search, (4) expanding the data map by including, within the data map, a representation of each of the other documents in the document family based on the determination that the user made the selection, and (5) using the expanded data map to include the document family within the results of the search. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.