Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method of and system for displaying a plurality of user-selectable refinements to a search query
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Application No.: US14243204Application Date: 2014-04-02
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Publication No.: US09613132B2Publication Date: 2017-04-04
- Inventor: Andrey Grigorievich Plakhov , Alexander Ivanovich Mazaykin , Marina Sergeevna Khoruzhenko
- Applicant: YANDEX EUROPE AG
- Applicant Address: CH Lucerne
- Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
- Current Assignee: YANDEX EUROPE AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Lucerne
- Agency: BCF LLP
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
Method of displaying by a client application in communication with a search engine a plurality of user-selectable refinements to a search query including a search term, comprising: sending the search query; receiving search results and suggested search query refinements determined based at least in part on an analysis of groups of related search queries, each suggested search query refinement corresponding to a refined search query including the search term and an additional search term; displaying search results and, apart from a search bar, refinements, refinements being selectable by a user via a graphical object; receiving a selection of one of the refinements, the selection corresponding to a refined search query including the search term and an additional search term; receiving refined search results; and displaying refined search results and a visual representation of a refinement relationship between the search query and the refined search query. Related systems are also disclosed.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150006505A1 METHOD OF AND SYSTEM FOR DISPLAYING A PLURALITY OF USER-SELECTABLE REFINEMENTS TO A SEARCH QUERY Public/Granted day:2015-01-01
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