SYSTEMS, METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETERMINE RELEVANCE OF SEARCH RESULTS IN WHOLE/PART SEARCH

• US 20070233674A1
• Filed: 05/26/2007
• Published: 10/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Adam Lilling, Barbara D.E. Lury
• Original Assignee: Adam Lilling, Barbara D.E. Lury
• Inventors: Lilling, Adam, De Lury, Barbara
• Application Number:
  US11/754,274
• Publication Number:
  US 20070233674A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99934 Query formulation, input preparation, or translation

Abstract

Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which, in one aspect, one or more wholes and parts of wholes are searched in a database, presented to a user, sold and/or distributed.

Claims

1. A computer-accessible medium having executable instructions to locate saleable items, the executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:

searching a database for products that contain all parsed words of a search phrase in at least one product level or sub-product level attribute; and

eliminating from results of the search, products that do not match a refining criteria.

2. The computer-accessible medium of claim 1, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to search further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

searching a database for products that contain all parsed words of a search phrase in at least one album level or track level attribute, and

wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to eliminate non-matching products further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform;

eliminating from results of the search, albums that do not match a refining criteria.

3. The computer-accessible medium of claim 2, the medium further comprising executable instructions capable of directing a processor to perform:

determining relevancy of the non-eliminated search results in reference to an intention of the search.

4. The computer-accessible medium of claim 3, wherein the executable instructions capable of directing the processor to determine relevancy further comprise executable instructions capable of directing the processor to perform:

determining relevancy of the non-eliminated search results, in reference to a whole-biased rule set that favors wholes as a primary ordering criteria.

5. The computer-accessible medium of claim 4, wherein the whole-biased rule set further comprises an album-biased rule set.