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Personalizing a search query using social media

US11514124B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Timo Kussmaul · Hessenhöfe, DE
Uwe Hansmann · Altdorf, DE
Kai Brennenstuhl · Eppelheim, DE
Andreas Prokoph · Eppelheim, DE
Thomas Steinheber · Maihingen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 19, 2019
Grant date	Nov 29, 2022
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 9, 2040

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/9535
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for personalizing a search of a search service. The search service comprises a search index with content items of a search type being used as first search results for first search queries issued by the client application and providing second search queries to be executed for retrieving second search results to be returned in reply to the first search queries. The method comprises using social media content items retrieved from social media services for extracting a set of keywords comprised by the social media content items. A second search query modified, wherein the modifying comprises adding keywords of the set keywords as additional search parameters of the determined second search query.

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