Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Query modification based on non-textual resource context
-
Application No.: US15791079Application Date: 2017-10-23
-
Publication No.: US10592571B1Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Gokhan H. Bakir , Behshad Behzadi
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F16/00
- IPC: G06F16/00 ; G06F16/9535 ; G06F16/248 ; G06F16/332 ; G06F16/583

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, modifying queries based on non-textual content. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device, a query including a plurality of terms; determining active non-textual data displayed in an application environment on the user device; determining, from the non-textual textual data, modification data for the query; generating a set of modified queries based on the query and the modification parameters; scoring the modified queries according to one or more scoring criteria; selecting one of the modified queries based on the scoring; and providing, to the user device, search results responsive to the selected modified query.
Information query