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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 03, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Nitin Gupta, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Renshen Wang, Mountain View, CA (US);
Mangesh Gupte, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3053 (2013.01); G06F 17/30389 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus related to identifying a query template that includes one or more terms and a member of an entity category and ranking the query template. Query suggestions may be determined based on the query template. The ranking of the query template may be utilized to determine if the query template is a valid query template. The ranking of the template may be based on at least a count of occurrences of one or more of the entities of the entity category in past queries that conform to the query template.