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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 27, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2014
Priceline.com, Inc., Norwalk, CT (US);
Michael Diliberto, Ritchfield, CT (US);
John Caine, Bridgeport, CT (US);
Jonathan Taylor, Ridgefield, CT (US);
Michael P. Gonzalez, Valparaiso, IN (US);
Jim Jianqiang Chen, Danbury, CT (US);
Amit Poddar, Stamford, CT (US);
PRICELINE.COM LLC, Norwalk, CT (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a method comprises receiving, from a client computer, a first request comprising a partial search term for an item, wherein the partial search term comprises one or more characters; selecting a first plurality of predicted completions of the partial search term based, at least in part, on the partial search term, wherein each predicted completion in the first plurality of predicted completions is associated with a category of a set of categories; determining an order of each category in the set of categories; ordering the first plurality of predicted completions based, at least in part, on a position, in the order, of each category that is associated with each predicted completion in the first plurality of predicted completions; sending the first plurality of predicted completions to the client computer.