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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2016
Quid, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Mary Kate Lowe, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ruggero Altair Tacchi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alex Marrs, San Francisco, CA (US);
Oriana Jeannette Love, Alameda, CA (US);
Quid, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a process of refining Boolean queries, the process including: obtaining a query; searching a corpus of documents based on the query; selecting narrowing terms that pertain to respective subsets of the responsive documents; selecting broadening terms related to the query; instructing the user's computing device to present a graphical user interface comprising: graphical representations of the narrowing terms; graphical representations of the broadening terms; and one or more user inputs by which the user refines the query by adding a selected narrowing term or a selected broadening term; obtaining a user selection of a broadening term or a narrowing term; forming a refined query based on the user selection; searching at least part of the corpus based on the refined query to identify refined responsive documents; and instructing the user's computing device to present an updated graphical user interface with information about the refined responsive documents.