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US 2015/0310058 A1Published application
Opportunistically solving search use cases
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsReiner Kraft, Viraj Chavan
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a search query may be obtained. A set of one or more use cases may be determined based, at least in part, upon the search query. A set of one or more search results may be identified based, at least in part, upon the search query. Information that answers the search query for at least one of the set of use cases may be obtained, where the information has been derived from at least a subset of the set of search results. An indication of at least a portion of the information may be provided.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- obtaining a search query;
- determining a set of one or more use cases based, at least in part, upon the search query;
- identifying a set of one or more search results based, at least in part, upon the search query;
- obtaining information that answers the search query for at least one of the set of use cases, the information being derived from at least a subset of the set of search results;
- and
- providing an indication of at least a portion of the information.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory, at least one of the processor or the memory being adapted for:
- obtaining a search query;
- determining a set of one or more use cases based, at least in part, upon the search query;
- identifying a set of one or more search results based, at least in part, upon the search query;
- obtaining information that answers the search query for at least one of the set of use cases, the information being derived from at least a subset of the set of search results;
- and
- providing an indication of at least a portion of the information.
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A system, comprising:
- means for determining a set of one or more use cases based, at least in part, upon a search query;
- means for identifying a set of one or more search results based, at least in part, upon the search query;
- means for obtaining information that answers the search query for at least one of the set of use cases, the information being derived from at least a subset of the set of search results;
- and
- means for providing an indication of at least a portion of the information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.