US 7,249,126 B1Granted

Systems and methods for dynamically updating relevance of a selected item

AssigneeShopping.com

InventorsAdam L. Ginsburg, Oren Glickman, Amir Ashkenazi

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Abstract

Systems and methods for dynamically updating ranking of items retrieved in response to a search query are provided. Specifically, systems and methods according to the invention preferably decrease a value associated with a selected item and increase a value of non-selected items that, prior to the selection, had a lesser weight than the selected item. Alternatively, if the list was ranked from higher value to lowest value, than the selected item would be rewarded by an increase in its score and the non-selected items that previously had a higher value would have their respective values decreased. It should be noted than any and all values and weights described herein may be normalized to ensure appropriate results. Alternative embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and systems for classifying groups of items into meta-products and then updating the rankings of the items based at least in part on the meta-product classification.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A system for updating the order of display of a plurality of items, the items that were retrieved in response to a search query, the system comprising:

a server comprising:
a server storage device;
a server processor connected to the server storage device, the server storage device storing a server program for controlling the server processor;
and
wherein the server is operative to communicate with each of a plurality of workstations, each of the workstations comprising:
a workstation storage device;
a workstation processor connected to the workstation storage device, the workstation storage device storing a workstation program for controlling the workstation processor;
and
the workstation processor operative with the workstation program to:
display the plurality of items;
receive a selection of one of the plurality of items;
the server processor operative with the server program to update the order of display of the plurality of items in response to the selection, the updating comprising:
adjusting a value of the selected item with respect to the search query;
adjusting a value of each of the plurality of items that are displayed in a higher position than the selected item with respect to the search query;
and
the workstation processor further operative with the workstation program to display a list of the plurality of items in response to the search query, the order of the list being based on an adjusted value associated with each of the items.

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A method for updating the order of display of items, the items being classified into a plurality of groups based on item characteristics, the items that were retrieved in response to a search query, the method comprising:

updating the order of the groups based on a value that represents each of the groups;
in response to a user selection of one of the items retrieved by the search query:
adjusting a value of a group that includes the selected item;
and
adjusting the value of each of the groups that are displayed in a higher position with respect to the search query than the group that includes the selected item;
and
displaying a list of the plurality of items in response to the search query, the order of the list being based at least in part on the value associated with each of the groups.

4 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/025,340Filed 29 Dec 2004 · us provisional application
Priority: 30 Dec 2003
Granted: 24 Jul 2007
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 16/951
Retrieval from the web: indexing; Web crawling techniques
G06F 16/9538
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: presentation of query results
Y10S 707/99933
Database or file accessing: query processing, i.e. searching
Y10S 707/99935
Query processing, i.e. searching: query augmenting and refining, e.g. inexact access