US 10,095,748 B2 · Personalized information query suggestions

Abstract

Personalized search or query suggestions associated with one or more persons and/or content items are provided. A suggestion application learns from user behavior within the suggestion application and presents suggestions for allowing the user to search or navigate to one or more people of particular interest or relevance to the user and for allowing the user to search or navigate to one or more content items associated with people and activities of particular interest or relevance to the user. Two types of suggestions are provided to the user. A first type of suggestion involves suggesting one or more people that may be of particular relevance or interest to the querying user. A second type of suggestion includes a textual suggestion comprised of a person (actor) and an associated action.

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Dependent claims

A method of personalizing query suggestions, comprising:

receiving a query via computer-enabled query application;
determining a first score for each of one or more people, wherein the first score is based on a frequency with which a querying user has selected each of the one or more people from previous query suggestions produced by the query application;
determining a second score for each of the one or more people based on interactions between the querying user and the one or more people in one or more applications other than the query application;
combining the first score and the second score to form a combined score, wherein the second score contributes less than the first score to the combined score;
ranking each of the one or more people based on the combined score;
providing, based on the ranking, a people query suggestion in a query suggestion user interface;
and
providing an actor-action query suggestion in the query suggestion user interface for receiving information about a content item action associated with a person corresponding to the content item action.

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A computer readable storage device on which is stored computer executable instructions which, when executed by a computer, perform a method of personalizing query suggestions, comprising:

receiving a query via computer-enabled query application;
determining a first score for each of one or more people, wherein the first score is based on a frequency with which a querying user has selected each of the one or more people from previous query suggestions produced by the query application;
determining a second score for each of the one or more people based on interactions between the querying user and the one or more people in one or more additional applications;
combining the first score and the second score to form a combined score, wherein the second score is normalized to a decimal value when combined with the first score;
ranking each of the one or more people based on the combined score;
and
providing, based on the ranking, a people query suggestion, wherein providing the people query suggestion includes providing the people query suggestion for a top ranked of the one or more people.

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A computer system comprising a computer processor in communication with computer-readable storage device, the computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed, perform a method, the method comprising:

receiving a query via computer-enabled query application;
determining a first score for each of one or more people, wherein the first score is based on a frequency with which a querying user has selected each of the one or more people from previous query suggestions produced by the query application;
determining a second score for each of the one or more people based on interactions between the querying user and the one or more people in one or more additional applications;
combining the first score and the second score to form a combined score, wherein the second score contributes less than the first score to the combined score;
ranking each of the one or more people based on the combined score;
and
providing, based on the ranking, a people query suggestion, wherein providing the people query suggestion includes providing the people query suggestion for a top ranked of the one or more people.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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