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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2014
Fast Simon, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Fast Simon, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a server-side process operating on a server includes crawling of one or more websites for possible answers to a query and adding the possible answer entities into a data structure of answer entities to queries. The server-side process also includes serving a requested Web page with an added search box that is displayed by a client coupled to the server. As a user types one or more characters at the client, the client sends the characters, portion-by-portion, e.g., character-by-character to the server-side process. In response, the server-side process searches the index for possible answers to the (so-far-typed) query, and provides to the client a list of answers (rather than queries) to be displayed by the client. Each additional character entered may modify the provided list of answers. The client selecting a listed answer navigation directly to the answer.