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US8700639B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 1, 2012
Grant dateApr 15, 2014
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Expiry dateAug 25, 2032

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  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10S707/99935
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining a context of the current search session. In one aspect, a method includes identifying query paths from previous search sessions, each query path defining a context and being a plurality of queries in an order in which the queries were provided for in a respective previous search session; identifying search session queries of a current search session; comparing the search session queries of the current search session to the queries in the query paths from the previous search sessions; and determining that a context of the current search session is related to a query path from the previous search sessions based at least in part on the comparison, the determining including: determining that two or more of the queries of the query path are similar to two or more of the search session queries.

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