US 2013/0097139 A1 · PROGRAMMABLE MULTI-FILTERING

Abstract

A method and apparatus are presented for: receiving a search query, comprising a query select statement and a plurality of search terms; generating a plurality of selection models based on the query select statement and the plurality of search terms, wherein each selection model, from the plurality of selection models, comprises a unique combination of one or more terms, from the plurality of search terms, that is not present in other selection models, from the plurality of selection models. A plurality of particular selection results is obtained for a particular selection model for each particular selection model, from the plurality of models. The plurality of particular selection results are grouped to a final result and aggregated according to the selection models, and the aggregated final result is presented to a user.

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A method comprising:

receiving a search query comprising a query select statement and a plurality of search terms;
generating a plurality of selection models based on the query select statement and the plurality of search terms;
wherein each selection model, from the plurality of selection models, comprises a unique combination of one or more terms, from the plurality of search terms, that is not present in other selection models, from the plurality of selection models;
obtaining a plurality of particular selection results for a particular selection model for each particular selection model, from the plurality of models;
grouping the plurality of particular selection results into a final result and aggregating the final result according to the plurality of selection models;
presenting the aggregated final result;
wherein the method is performed by one or more special-purpose computing devices.

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An apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;
a search unit configured to receive a search query comprising a query select statement and a plurality of search terms;
a grouping searcher configured to generate a plurality of selection models based on the query select statement and the plurality of search terms;
wherein a selection model, from the plurality of selection models, comprises a unique combination of one or more terms, from the plurality of search terms, that is not present in other selection models, from the plurality of selection models;
a selection transformer configured to perform:
for each of the plurality of selection models, transform a selection model into a plurality of execution models;
a grouping executor configured to perform:
for each of the plurality of selection models:
distribute the plurality of execution models to one or more search cores for execution;
receive a plurality of execution results from the one or more search cores;
the selection transformer further configured to perform:
group the plurality of execution results into a selection result;
wherein the selection result comprises results to the selection model, from the plurality of selection models;
the grouping searcher further configured to group a plurality of selection results into a final result, and aggregate the final result according to the plurality of selection models;
a presenting unit configured to present the aggregated final result.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Programmable multi-filtering

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