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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2010
Anwis Das, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abhinandan S. Das, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anwis Das, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abhinandan S. Das, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for generating query refinements using query components. In general, one aspect features a method that includes the acts of receiving a query comprising a plurality of terms; identifying first and second components of the query, wherein each component comprises one or more of the terms of the query and the components do not share a term from the query, and wherein the first component appears before the second component in the query; determining, for each component, a plurality of different respective component refinements; and combining the component refinements to create a plurality of query refinements for the query, including combining a first component refinement for the first component with a second component refinement for the second component to create a query refinement so that the first component refinement appears before the second component refinement in the query refinement.