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Generating and ranking incremental search suggestions for personal content

US9075898B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Filing dateJun 24, 2013
Grant dateJul 7, 2015
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Expiry dateDec 21, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F16/3322
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Providing incremental search suggestions from a content database include accessing the content database to determine possible candidates for the search suggestions, scoring each of the candidates based at least partially on a non-monotonic document frequency function, where candidates that appear a first amount corresponding to a relatively frequent occurrence in the content database and candidates that appear a second amount corresponding to a relatively infrequent occurrence in the content database both score lower than candidates that appear in the content database with a frequency that is between the first amount and the second amount, and ordering the possible candidates based on at least the scoring. Possible candidates may include named entities and n-grams. The n-grams may only be unigrams and bigrams. Stop words may be filtered out of the n-grams. Scoring may include taking into account term frequency.

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