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US 8,429,161 B2Granted
Search filtering
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorsJungho Ahn, Justin J. Tansuwan, Junyoung Lee
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Abstract
Apparatus, systems and methods for search filtering are disclosed. A search instance associated with a user device is identified, and a determination is made as to whether the search instance includes a filtering term. If the search instance is determined to include a filtering term, then filtered content items in the search instance are identified, and the filtered content items and access to a verification service that provides access approval or access denial for unfiltered content items in the search instance are provided to the user device. Conversely, if the search instance is determine not to include a filtering term, then the unfiltered content items are provided to the user device.
Claims33
A computer implemented method, comprising:
- receiving a query from a user device, the query being one or more query terms;
- identifying content items that are responsive to the query as unfiltered content items;
- determining that the query includes a filtering term, the determining comprising:
- comparing the query terms to a list of filtering terms;
- and
- determining, in response to a match of one or more of the query terms to at least one of the filtering terms, that the query includes a filtering term;
- and
- in response to the determination that the query includes the filtering term:
- identifying filtered content items based on the query and the filtering term;
- providing search results for the filtered content items to the user device, each search result referencing a filtered content item;
- providing the user device access to a verification service that provides access approval or access denial for search results for the unfiltered content items that are responsive to the query,
- determining whether access approval or access denial is received from the verification service in response to user identification data provided to the verification service;
- if access approval is received from the verification service, then providing search results for the unfiltered content items to the user device;
- and
- if access denial is received from the verification service, then precluding the provisioning of search results for the unfiltered content items to the user device.
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A system, comprising:
- a data processing apparatus;
- and
- instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage system accessible by the data processing apparatus and executable by the data processing apparatus that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a query from a user device, the query being one or more query terms;
- identifying content items that are responsive to the query as unfiltered content items;
- determining that the query includes a filtering term, the determining comprising:
- comparing the query terms to a list of filtering terms;
- and
- determining, in response to a match of one or more of the query terms to at least one of the filtering terms, that the query includes a filtering term;
- and
- in response to the determination that the query includes the filtering term:
- identifying filtered content items based on the query and the filtering term;
- providing search results for the filtered content items to the user device, each search result referencing a filtered content item;
- providing the user device access to a verification service that provides access approval or access denial for search results for the unfiltered content items that are responsive to the query,
- determining whether access approval or access denial is received from the verification service in response to user identification data provided to the verification service;
- if access approval is received from the verification service, then providing search results for the unfiltered content items to the user device;
- and
- if access denial is received from the verification service, then precluding the provisioning of search results for the unfiltered content items to the user device.
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Software stored in a non-transitory computer readable medium storage system and storing instructions executable by a data processing apparatus that upon such execution cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a query from a user device, the query being one or more query terms;
- identifying content items that are responsive to the query as unfiltered content items;
- determining that the query includes a filtering term, the determining comprising:
- comparing the query terms to a list of filtering terms;
- and
- determining, in response to a match of one or more of the query terms to at least one of the filtering terms, that the query includes a filtering term;
- and
- in response to the determination that the query includes the filtering term:
- identifying filtered content items based on the query and the filtering term;
- providing search results for the filtered content items to the user device, each search result referencing a filtered content item;
- providing the user device access to a verification service that provides access approval or access denial for search results for the unfiltered content items that are responsive to the query,
- determining whether access approval or access denial is received from the verification service in response to user identification data provided to the verification service;
- if access approval is received from the verification service, then providing search results for the unfiltered content items to the user device;
- and
- if access denial is received from the verification service, then precluding the provisioning of search results for the unfiltered content items to the user device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.