Consolidating and formatting search results
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsVijay Kumar Ananthapur Bache, Madhusmita P. Patil
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for consolidating and formatting search results. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to consolidate, format, and return results to display only the relevant segments of aggregated results, which can reduce the likelihood of overlooking relevant sources of information, thereby improving the quality of search results returned to a user.
Claims20
A method for consolidating and formatting search results, the method comprising the steps of:
- receiving, by one or more computer processors, a search query from an application;
- generating, by one or more computer processors, one or more search results having at least one meta-tag associated with a term of the search query;
- aggregating, by one or more computer processors, the generated search results based on media type, wherein the media type comprises one or more of audio, video, text, and pictures;
- determining, by one or more computer processors, whether to consolidate the aggregated search results;
- and
- if it is determined to consolidate the aggregated search results, consolidating, by one or more computer processors, the aggregated search results based, at least in part, on a preference of a user.
A computer program product for consolidating and formatting search results comprising:
- one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive a search query from an application;
- program instructions to generate one or more search results having at least one meta-tag associated with a term of the search query;
- program instructions to aggregate the generated search results based on media type, wherein the media type comprises one or more of audio, video, text, and pictures;
- program instructions to determine whether to consolidate the aggregated search results;
- and
- if it is determined to consolidate the aggregated search results, program instructions to consolidate the aggregated search results based, at least in part, on a preference of a user.
A computer system consolidating and formatting search results comprising:
- one or more computer processors;
- one or more computer readable storage media;
- and
- program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions comprising:
- program instructions to receive a search query from an application;
- program instructions to generate one or more search results having at least one meta-tag associated with a term of the search query;
- program instructions to aggregate the generated search results based on media type, wherein the media type comprises one or more of audio, video, text, and pictures;
- program instructions to determine whether to consolidate the aggregated search results;
- and
- if it is determined to consolidate the aggregated search results, program instructions to consolidate the aggregated search results based, at least in part, on a preference of a user.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.