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Suggested Terms for Ambiguous Search Queries

  • US 20170039210A1
  • Filed: 10/21/2016
  • Published: 02/09/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2010
  • Status: Active Application
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1. A method comprising, by a computing device:

  • receiving, from a client system of a first user, a character string having n characters entered by the first user into a query field, wherein a term comprising the nth character of the character string is an ambiguous term;

    identifying one or more objects corresponding to the ambiguous term based on a calculated probability that the ambiguous term corresponds to the identified objects;

    sending, to the client system responsive to receiving the nth character of the character string, instructions for presenting a set of suggested queries to the first user, each suggested query from the set of suggested queries corresponding to one of the identified objects and comprising a reference to the corresponding identified object;

    receiving, from the client system, a selection of a suggested query corresponding to a first object of the identified objects; and

    sending, to the client system responsive to receiving the selection of the suggested query, instructions for modifying the ambiguous term in the query field to include a reference to the first object.

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