SEARCH SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONDUCTING A LOCAL SEARCH

• US 20090132512A1
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Published: 05/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: McKee, Aaron Kameron, Vegnaduzzo, Stefano, Yang, Yue Rona, Jouline, Anton V., Putivsky, Yuri, Kislyuk, Oleg S.
• Application Number:
  US11/941,808
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132512A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

The invention provides a system for searching data including an online query processing system, a ranking system, an offline data processing component, and a backend search engine.

Claims

1. A system for searching data, comprising:

an online query processing system;

a ranking system;

an offline data processing component; and

a backend search engine.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the query processing system is comprised of a parsing and disambiguation component.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the query processing system is comprised of a categorization component.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the query processing system is comprised of a transformation component.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the data processing component is comprised of a data correlation component.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the data processing component is comprised of a reliable key word selection component.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the data processing component is comprised of a multiple language model information retrieval system.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the ranking system is comprised of a ranking component that ranks data using semantic and nonsemantic features.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a query expansion component.

10. A method for searching data, comprising:

processing a user query using an online query processing system;

ranking data using a ranking system;

processing data using an offline data processing component; and

searching data using a backend search engine.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the query processing system is comprised of a parsing and disambiguation component.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the query processing system is comprised of a categorization component.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the query processing system is comprised of a transformation component.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the data processing component is comprised of a data correlation component.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the data processing component is comprised of a reliable key word selection component.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the data processing component is comprised of a multiple language model information retrieval system.

17. The method of claim 10, wherein the ranking system is comprised of a ranking component that ranks data using semantic and nonsemantic features.

18. The method of claim 10, further comprising expanding a query using a query expansion component.

19. A computer-readable medium, having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of at least one computer, executes a method for searching data comprising:

processing a user query using an online query processing system;

ranking data using a ranking system;

processing data using an offline data processing component; and

searching data using a backend search engine.