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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 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);
Nelson Wiggins, San Jose, CA (US);
Veritas Technologies LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for expanding search results may include (1) determining that a user is attempting to perform a search, (2) presenting an option to the user to include, within results of the search, a document family associated with a found document, (3) determining that the user has selected to include the document family associated with the document, and (4) including the document family in the search results in response to determining that the user has selected to include the document family associated with the document. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.