Method and System for URL Autocompletion Using Ranked Results
First Claim
1. A method for processing URL information, comprising:
- at a server system;
receiving from a requester a partial URL;
the receiving including receiving the partial URL from the requester prior to the requester performing an action indicating entry of a complete URL that includes the partial URL;
obtaining a set of complete URLs corresponding to the partial URL, the complete URLs previously submitted by a community of users and ordered in accordance with a ranking criteria; and
conveying the set of ordered complete URLs to the requester.
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Abstract
A set of ordered predicted completion strings are presented to a user as the user enters text in a text entry box (e.g., a browser or a toolbar). The predicted completion strings can be in the form of URLs or query strings. The ordering may be based on any number of factors (e.g., a query'"'"'s frequency of submission from a community of users). URLs can be ranked based on an importance value of the URL. Privacy is taken into account in a number of ways, such as using a previously submitted query only when more than a certain number of unique requesters have made the query. The sets of ordered predicted completion strings is obtained by matching a fingerprint value of the user'"'"'s entry string to a fingerprint to table map which contains the set of ordered predicted completion strings.
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21 Claims
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1. A method for processing URL information, comprising:
at a server system; receiving from a requester a partial URL;
the receiving including receiving the partial URL from the requester prior to the requester performing an action indicating entry of a complete URL that includes the partial URL;obtaining a set of complete URLs corresponding to the partial URL, the complete URLs previously submitted by a community of users and ordered in accordance with a ranking criteria; and conveying the set of ordered complete URLs to the requester. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-implemented program product, for use with a computer system, the computer-implemented program product comprising:
one or more computer programs stored on a computer readable storage medium, which when executed cause the computer system to; receive from a requestor a partial URL;
wherein the partial URL is received from the requester prior to the requester performing an action indicating entry of a complete URL that includes the partial URL;obtain a set of complete URLs previously submitted by a community of users, the complete URLs corresponding to the partial URL and ordered in accordance with a ranking criteria; and convey the set of ordered complete URLs to the requester. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system for processing query information, comprising:
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one or more central processing units for executing programs; and memory to store data and to store programs to be executed by the one or more central processing units, the memory storing; sets of complete URLs previously submitted by a community of users; instructions for receiving a partial URL from a requestor;
wherein the partial URL is received from the requester prior to the requester performing an action indicating entry of a complete URL that includes the partial URL;instructions for obtaining a respective set of complete URLs previously submitted by a community of users, the complete URLs corresponding to the partial URL and ordered in accordance with a ranking criteria; and instructions for conveying the respective set of ordered complete URLs to the requestor.
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