SEARCHING BASED ON AN IDENTIFIER OF A SEARCHER

• US 20130325852A1
• Filed: 05/31/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company)
• Original Assignee: Michal Aharon, Omer Barkol, Reuth Vexler, Shahar Golan
• Inventors: Golan, Shahar, Aharon, Michal, BARKOL, OMER, Vexler, Reuth
• Granted Patent: US 9,465,875 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/723
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A query is received to search data, where the query includes a search term. A search of the data is performed in response to the query, wherein the search produces result data based on the search term and an identifier of a searcher submitting the query.

Claims

1. A method of personalized searching, comprising:

receiving a query to search data, the query including a search term; and

performing a search of the data in response to the query, wherein the search produces result data based on the search term and an identifier of a searcher submitting the query, where the identifier of the searcher is obtained independently of a search input provided by the searcher to produce the query, and where at least a portion of the result data includes content involving the searcher identified by the identifier.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising using the result data to perform further searching.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the query is a first query, the method further comprising:

identifying terms in the result data;

producing a second query containing the identified terms.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

processing the second query to perform the further searching.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

correlating terms in the result data with data items in the result data, where the correlating produces respective correlation weights; and

identifying at least a subset of the terms in the result data based on the respective correlation weights, for use in performing a further search.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the content involving the searcher includes at least one selected from among a data item authored by the searcher, a data item received by the searcher, and a data item produced based on participation of the searcher.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the query includes receiving the query responsive to the search input including a search string entered by the searcher.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the query includes receiving the query that contains terms of an input data item for use in identifying at least one result data item that is similar to the input data item.

9. An article comprising at least one machine-readable storage medium storing instructions that upon execution cause a system to:

perform a first search of a corpus of data based on a first query containing a search term, and based on an identifier of a searcher that submitted the first query;

produce a second query that contains terms identified based on result data produced by the first search; and

perform a second search of the corpus of data based on the second query.

10. The article of claim 9, wherein the instructions upon execution cause the system to further:

identify a subset of terms in the result data to provide the terms for the second query.

11. The article of claim 10, wherein identifying the subset of terms comprises ranking the terms in the result data and selecting the subset based on the ranking.

12. The article of claim 11, wherein the ranking is based on correlation weights computed for the corresponding terms in the result data, where each of the correlation weights is based on correlation of the respective term to data items in the result data produced by the first search.

13. The article of claim 9, wherein the terms identified based on the result data produced by the first search include at least one term in a data item involving the searcher.

14. The article of claim 9, wherein the first query contains the search term entered as a search string by the searcher.

15. The article of claim 9, wherein the first query contains search terms extracted from an input data item.

16. The article of claim 15, wherein the second search produces further result data containing data items that are similar to the input data item.

17. A system comprising:

at least one processor to;

receive a query to search data, the query including terms of an input data item, where the query is to identify result data items that are similar to the input data item; and

perform a search of the data in response to the query, wherein the search produces result data based on the terms and an identifier of a searcher submitting the query, where at least a portion of the result data includes content involving the searcher identified by the identifier.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the query is a first query, and wherein the at least one processor is to further:

produce a second query containing search terms identified from among terms in the result data; and

perform a further search in response to the second query.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the at least one processor is to return further result data produced by the further search to the searcher.

20. The system of claim 17, wherein the identifier of the searcher is obtained independently of a search input provided by the searcher to produce the query.