Method and system to process a data search request

US8332383B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• eBay Inc. · US

Inventors

• Nicholas D. Posner · Redwood City, US
• Ramana M. Idury · Sunnyvale, US
• Richard D. Henderson · San Jose, US
• Randall Scott Shoup · San Francisco, US
• Vijay Kumar · Wilmington, US
• Louis Marcel Gino Monier · Menlo Park, US
• Anselm Paul Baird-Smith · San Jose, US
• Thomas Nelson · Sammamish, US
• Raghav Gupta · Saratoga, US
• Raffi Tutundjian · San Francisco, US
• Preston Smalley · Danville, US
• Alvaro Bolivar · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 29, 2005
• Grant date: Dec 11, 2012
• Expiry date: Apr 15, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F16/951
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method and system to process a data search request. The system includes a query controller module to receive the data search request that includes constraints; a reduced constraint builder module to formulate a plurality of search definitions that are formulated to exclude at least one constraint; and a search engine to perform searches of a data source to generate search results and to utilize the search results to calculate counts of data items that respectively correspond to the search definitions. The query controller module communicates the counts of data items and the corresponding search definitions to a client machine. Each of the search definitions is formulated to include a constraint set.