Search apparatus and search system
US10878049B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Apr 12, 2018 |
| Grant date | Dec 29, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 14, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F16/24578
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A search apparatus includes a request acquisition unit that acquires a search request from a user, a search processing unit that executes a search process on a basis of a search target designated in the search request, an information acquisition unit acquires user-related information related to the user, a selection unit, a selection unit, and a providing unit. The selection unit selects, as information expected by the user, a piece of search result information highly relevant to the user-related information if the search processing unit acquires, as search results, multiple pieces of information having mutually different semantic contents and being multiple pieces of search result information from among the multiple pieces of search result information having the different semantic contents. The providing unit provides the user with the information expected by the user selected by the selection unit as a search result responding to the search request.
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