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Method and system for enhanced query term suggestion

  • US 10,210,243 B2
  • Filed: 08/23/2017
  • Issued: 02/19/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, implemented on a machine having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network, for providing query term suggestions, the method comprising:

  • receiving from a user, a partial query term in a search session;

    obtaining, one or more candidate query terms based on the partial query term, and a plurality of query terms previously entered by the user, each query term of the plurality of query terms being included in the search session;

    obtaining, a signature of the one or more candidate query terms, and each query term of the plurality of query terms, respectively;

    computing an overall score for each of the one or more candidate query terms, the overall score being computed based on a degree of correlation between the signature of the candidate query term and each signature of the query term of the plurality of query terms; and

    providing the one or more candidate query terms as query suggestions based on the overall scores of the candidate query terms.

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