Browseable fact repository

• US 20070198503A1
• Filed: 02/17/2006
• Published: 08/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Betz, Jonathan, Hogue, Andrew
• Granted Patent: US 7,774,328 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24522 Translation of natural language queries to structured queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/334 Query execution G06F16/335 takes precedence

Abstract

A fact repository supports searches of facts relevant to search queries comprising keywords and phrases. A service engine retrieves the objects that are associated with facts relevant to the query. The objects are displayed on a search results page. Each object is displayed with selection of the facts associated with the object. The selected facts are ordered according to their relevance to the query.

Claims

1. A computer implemented method of enabling browsing of a fact repository comprising a plurality of facts, associated with objects, the method comprising:

receiving a search query;

retrieving in response to the search query at least one object relevant to the search query; and

displaying for each object;

a plurality of facts, the displayed facts rank ordered by relevance to the search query; and

a link to at least one object detail page for the object, the object detail page containing a plurality of the facts associated with the object.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein each fact is stored as a separate item of data in the fact repository.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying for each object, a name fact of the object.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying for each object a label indicating a category of the object, the label derived from a fact associated with the object.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying for each object a search link, the search link associated with a search query to be executed by the service engine in response to a user selection of the search link.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying for each object an attribute search link, the attribute search link associated with a search query comprising an attribute of the object,

and adapted to be executed by the service engine in response to a user selection of the search link;

responsive to receiving a selection of the search link, providing the search query to the service engine for retrieving objects having facts matching the attribute of the search link;

receiving from the service engine at least one search result including an object having at least one fact matching the attribute of the search link; and

displaying the object and the at least one fact.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying for each object a value search link, the value search link associated with a search query comprising a value of the object, and adapted to be executed by the service engine in response to a user selection of the search link;

responsive to receiving a selection of the search link, providing the search query to the service engine for retrieving objects having facts matching the value of the search link;

receiving from the service engine at least one search result including an object having at least one fact matching the value of the search link; and

displaying the object and the at least one fact.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

displaying for each object an attribute-value search link, the attribute-value search link associated with a search query comprising an attribute of the object and a value of the attribute, and adapted to be executed by the service engine in response to a user selection of the search link;

responsive to receiving a selection of the search link, providing the search query to the service engine for retrieving objects having facts matching the attribute of the search link and having a value matching the value of the search link;

receiving from the service engine at least one search result including an object having at least one fact matching the attribute of the search link and the value of the attribute; and

displaying the object and the at least one fact.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

for at least one fact of an object, displaying a source link to a source of the fact.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the source link includes anchor text, and the anchor text is Uniform Resource Locator or a portion thereof of the source of the fact.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the source link includes anchor text, and the anchor text is a name of source of the fact.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

for at least one object, displaying a media link to a media file associated with the object.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

for at least one object, displaying a media link to a system from which a media file associated with the object can be purchased.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

for at least one object, displaying a media link to a system from which a media file associated with the object can be purchased.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

for at least one object, displaying a media link to at least one media file associated with object, wherein the media link is a search link including a search query including at least one search query term derived from facts associated with the object, and search query of media link is provided to a remote system upon selection of the media link.

16. A user interface for a client device, for searching and browsing fact repository comprising a plurality of facts associated with objects, the fact repository coupled to a service engine adapted to search the fact repository in response to a search query, the user interface implemented on the client device by computer executable code and data, comprising:

a search results page, adapted for display on the client device in response to a search query provided by the client device to the service engine, and including a plurality of object links, each object link associated with an object relevant to the search query; and

for each object link to an object, a plurality of facts associated with the object, the plurality of facts displayed in a rank order by relevance to the search query.