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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 28, 2012
Expedia, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);
David Elias Fleischman, Issaquah, WA (US);
Joanne Louise Burger, Seattle, WA (US);
Brian Scott Keffeler, Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey Stewart Miller, Seattle, WA (US);
Daniel Harrison Friedman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Glenn Padgett Crowe, Woodinville, WA (US);
Vincent Yung, Issaquah, WA (US);
Murari Gopalan, Seattle, WA (US);
John C Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);
Anne Marie Tuazon, Renton, WA (US);
EXPEDIA, INC., Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
A network-based service may be provided for facilitating queries for a number of items, such as travel services. A user may submit a query including criteria for determining one or more relevant items. Based on the submitted query, the network-based service may present the user with information regarding the actions of other similar users of the network-based service, such as searches performed by the other users. Based on this information, the user may elect to supplement the current query to conform to the actions for other users. In some embodiments, actions by other users may be based at least in part on a category of the querying user. By presenting actions of similar users, a current user may be enabled to select the most relevant query terms for identifying a desired item.