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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2009
Athellina Athsani, San Jose, CA (US);
M. Cameron Jones, San Jose, CA (US);
Lawrence Gordon Tesler, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Elizabeth F. Churchill, San Francisco, CA (US);
Athellina Athsani, San Jose, CA (US);
M. Cameron Jones, San Jose, CA (US);
Lawrence Gordon Tesler, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Elizabeth F. Churchill, San Francisco, CA (US);
EXCALIBUR IP, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides a method and system for conducting a profile based search. The method and system includes receiving a search request including one or more search terms from a user, parsing the search request into categorical verticals, determining search refinement data relative to the categorical verticals, the search refinement data including at least one of: profile information, environmental data relative to the search request and historical behavior data relating to the search request or the user and accessing a database of aggregated search data based on the search refinement data. The method and system includes using the aggregated search data, determining a most relevant search query and a most relevant user profile, refining the search request based on the most relevant search query and most relevant user profile and generating an output display of a search result set based on the refined search request.