IMAGE SEARCH ENGINE AUGMENTING SEARCH TEXT BASED UPON CATEGORY SELECTION
First Claim
1. An online search system that services both a plurality of web servers and a plurality of users via an Internet, the plurality of web servers offering a plurality of web page data, the plurality of web page data including a plurality of links to a plurality of images, the online search system comprising:
- a database structure associatively storing text data for each of the plurality of images; and
a search system that, based on first search text, interacts with the database structure to identify search results, the search results including a first plurality of images corresponding to the first search text;
the search system assists in delivery of at least a portion of the first plurality of images to support a first visual presentation for a first user;
the search system receiving a category selection from the first user;
the search system augmenting the first search text based upon the category selection to produce second search text; and
the search system assists in delivery of at least a portion of a second plurality of images relating to the second search text to support a second visual presentation for the first user.
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Abstract
An image search engine server having an image search engine that performs image searches based on a search term that is augmented by a built-in thesaurus and/or a dictionary. For a thesaurus-based algorithm, the approach is to send a query back to the user, who can select the image search domain, sub-domain, and other hierarchical search refinements from one or more dropdown menus. The items in the dropdown menus that the user selects during the “query back” are used to augment the search string entered by the user to better refine the image search. If the user entered search string is a single string of dictionary word or words or the dictionary mode is elected, then synonyms for that search string are used to generate the augmented search string for the final context-based search operation. The result is improved image search results.
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20 Claims
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1. An online search system that services both a plurality of web servers and a plurality of users via an Internet, the plurality of web servers offering a plurality of web page data, the plurality of web page data including a plurality of links to a plurality of images, the online search system comprising:
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a database structure associatively storing text data for each of the plurality of images; and a search system that, based on first search text, interacts with the database structure to identify search results, the search results including a first plurality of images corresponding to the first search text; the search system assists in delivery of at least a portion of the first plurality of images to support a first visual presentation for a first user; the search system receiving a category selection from the first user; the search system augmenting the first search text based upon the category selection to produce second search text; and the search system assists in delivery of at least a portion of a second plurality of images relating to the second search text to support a second visual presentation for the first user. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer program for instructing a user'"'"'s computer of a user to perform a method supporting Internet based interaction with an online search system, the online search system gathering a plurality of web page related data including a plurality of related images from a plurality of web hosting servers, the method comprising:
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directing the user'"'"'s computer to produce a first visual presentation for the user to support gathering of first search text from the user; directing the user'"'"'s computer to deliver the first search text to the online search system to support a first search to identify first images from the plurality of related images; directing the user'"'"'s computer to produce a second visual presentation for the user based on the first images; directing the user'"'"'s computer to receive a category selection from the user; and directing the user'"'"'s computer to produce a third visual presentation for the user including second images from the plurality of related images from a second search based upon second search text constructed by augmentation of the first search text based upon the category selection. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An online search system that services both a plurality of web servers and a plurality of users via an Internet, the plurality of web servers offering a plurality of web page data, the plurality of web page data including a plurality of links to a plurality of images, the online search system comprising:
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a database structure associatively storing text data for each of the plurality of images; and a search system that, based on a first search text, interacts with the database structure to identify search results, the search results including a first plurality of images corresponding to the first search text, wherein the search system further identifies the search results based upon popularity of the first plurality of images; the search system assists in delivery of at least a portion of the first plurality of images to support a first visual presentation for a first user; the search system receiving a category selection from the first user; the search system augmenting the first search text based upon the category selection to produce second search text; and the search system assists in delivery of at least a portion of a second plurality of images relating to the second search text to support a second visual presentation for a first user. - View Dependent Claims (20)
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