US 10,853,432 B2Granted

Methods and systems for generating search results and recommendations based on multi-sourced two-way correspondence and relative entity prominence

AssigneeGoogle Inc.

InventorsJennifer Su, Christian Posse

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Abstract

The present disclosure is directed to generating search results, recommendations, and/or the like. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive data describing one or more aspects of entities of different types; determine, based at least in part on the aspect(s) of the entities, one or more additional aspects of the entities; determine, based at least in part on the additional aspect(s) of the entities, a metric indicating an extent to which the entities correspond to one another; generate, based on the metric, one or more search results, recommendations, and/or the like; and communicate, to a computing device (e.g., for display, and/or the like), data indicating the search result(s), recommendation(s), and/or the like.

Claims19

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, by a computing system and from a computing device associated with an entity of a first type, data describing one or more aspects of the entity of the first type;
receiving, by the computing system and from a computing device associated with an entity of a second type, data describing one or more aspects of the entity of the second type, the first type being different from the second type, the entity of the first type seeking entities of the second type, and the entity of the second type seeking entities of the first type;
determining, by the computing system and based at least in part on the one or more aspects of the entity of the first type and data associated with the entity of the first type and retrieved from a computing device distinct from the computing device associated with the entity of the first type, one or more additional aspects of the entity of the first type;
determining, by the computing system and based at least in part on the one or more aspects of the entity of the second type and data associated with the entity of the second type and retrieved from a computing device distinct from the computing device associated with the entity of the second type, one or more additional aspects of the entity of the second type;
determining, by the computing system and based at last in part on the one or more additional aspects of the entity of the first type and the one or more additional aspects of the entity of the second type, a metric indicating an extent to which the entity of the first type and the entity of the second type exhibit a two-way correspondence to one another based on correspondence between one or more implicit dimensions of the entity of the first type and one or more implicit dimensions of the entity of the second type, the one or more implicit dimensions of the entity of the first type being based on the one or more additional aspects of the entity of the first type, the one or more implicit dimensions of the entity of the second type being based on the one or more additional aspects of the entity of the second type, wherein the metric indicates how appealing the second type is to the entity of the first type and how appealing the first type is to the entity of the second type;
generating, by the computing system and based at least in part on the metric, one or more of search results or recommendations identifying the entity of the first type;
and
communicating, by the computing system and to the computing device associated with the entity of the second type, data indicating the one or more of the search results or the recommendations.

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A system comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the system to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from a computing device associated with an entity of a first type, data describing one or more aspects of the entity of the first type;
determining, based at least in part on the one or more aspects of the entity of the first type and data associated with the entity of the first type and retrieved from a computing device distinct from the computing device associated with the entity of the first type, one or more additional aspects of the entity of the first type;
determining, based at last in part on the one or more additional aspects of the entity of the first type, a plurality of metrics indicating extents to which the entity of the first type corresponds with a plurality of different entities of a second type, wherein the plurality of metrics indicates how appealing the second type is to the entity of the first type and how appealing the first time is to the plurality of different entities of the second type;
generating a listing of one or more of search results or recommendations identifying the plurality of different entities of the second type and ordered based at least in part on the plurality of metrics;
and
communicating, to the computing device associated with the entity of the first type, data indicating the listing.

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One or more non-transitory computer-readable media comprising instructions that when executed by one or more computers cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising:

for each entity of a first type of a plurality of different entities of a first type:
receiving, from a computing device associated with the entity of the first type, data describing one or more aspects of the entity of the first type;
determining, based at least in part on the one or more aspects of the entity of the first type and data associated with the entity of the first type and retrieved from a computing device distinct from the computing device associated with the entity of the first type, one or more additional aspects of the entity of the first type;
determining, based at last in part on the one or more additional aspects of the entity of the first type, a plurality of metrics indicating extents to which the entity of the first type corresponds with a plurality of different entities of a second type, wherein the plurality of metrics indicates how appealing the second type is to the entity of the first type and how appealing the first type is to the plurality of different entities of the second type;
generating, based at least in part on the plurality of metrics, one or more of search results or recommendations identifying the plurality of different entities of the second type;
and
communicating, to the computing device associated with the entity of the first type, data indicating the one or more of the search results or the recommendations.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.