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Methods and apparatus for generating a data dictionary

US8676829B2 · kind B2 · utility

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12Claims

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Assignee

eBay Inc. · US

Inventors

Yan Chen · Shanghai, CN
Joseph Anthony Beynon · Mountain View, US
Baruch Perlov · Sunnyvale, US
Sanjay Pundlkrao Ghatare · San Jose, US
Alvaro Bolivar · San Francisco, US
Nishith Parikh · Fremont, US
Karin Mauge · Mountain View, US
Guanglei Song · Belmont, US

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 23, 2012
Grant date	Mar 18, 2014
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 23, 2032

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/36
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

There is provided an ecommerce method and system to generate a data dictionary for searching data items stored in a database. In one embodiment, the system comprises a candidate list generator module to generate a list of keywords from search query information and generate a set of token pairs including a keyword from the list of keywords and a token, the token being a synonym of the keyword. Demand information retrieved from query logs maintained for user-provided query entries is used to apply candidate selection rules to token pairs. The system also comprises a validation module and a data dictionary module to receive validated token pairs as entries in a vocabulary.

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