SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GROUPING SEARCH RESULTS INTO DYNAMIC CATEGORIES BASED ON QUERY AND RESULT SET

• US 20200133960A1
• Filed: 12/31/2019
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/02/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Inventors: Malhotra, Anubhav, Hornkvist, John M.
• Granted Patent: US 11,669,550 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/2228 Indexing structures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/285 Clustering or classification
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques

Abstract

A method and apparatus of a device that indexes donated content from an application on a device is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives donated content for an application object from the application. The device further associates a metadata tag for a topic to the donated content. In addition, the device indexes the donated content with the metadata tag in a local search index of the device.

Claims

1. A machine-readable medium having executable instructions to cause one or more processing units to perform a method to index donated content from an application on a device, the method comprising:

receiving, with a device, donated content for an application object from the application;

associating a metadata tag for a topic to the donated content;

indexing the donated content with the metadata tag in a local search index of the device;

receiving a query search request and performing a query search for the query search request using the local search index to obtain a set of search results that includes the donated content; and

causing a presentation of a category for at least some of the set of search results using at least the metadata tag of the donated content.

2. The machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the application object is donated from an application locally installed on the device.

3. The machine-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising:

generating the metadata tag for the donated content.

4. The machine-readable medium of claim 3, wherein generating the metadata tag comprises:

performing an analysis on the application object, wherein the analysis is selected from the group consisting of latent semantic analysis, explicit semantic analysis, latent Dirichlet allocation, hierarchical Dirichlet process, non-negative matrix factorization, and expectation maximization;

extracting at least one topic from the analysis; and

adding the at least one topic to the metadata tag for the application object.

5. The machine-readable medium of claim 3, wherein generating the metadata tag comprises:

retrieving an application category for the application; and

adding the application category to the metadata tag as a topic for the application object.

6. The machine-readable medium of claim 5, wherein the application category for the application is retrieved from an application store.

7. The machine-readable medium of claim 3, wherein generating the metadata tag comprises:

retrieving a set of tags from the application.

8. The machine-readable medium of claim 7, wherein the application determines the set of tags based on at least a publicly set of available tags.

9. The machine-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the donated content is metadata relating to objects used with the application.

10. A method to index donated content from an application on a device, the method comprising:

receiving, with a device, donated content for an application object from the application;

associating a metadata tag for a topic to the donated content;

indexing the donated content with the metadata tag in a local search index of the device;

receiving a query search request and performing a query search for the query search request using the local search index to obtain a set of search results that includes the donated content; and

causing a presentation of a category for at least some of the set of search results using at least the metadata tag of the donated content.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the application object is donated from an application locally installed on the device.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

generating the metadata tag for the donated content.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein generating the metadata tag comprises:

performing an analysis on the application object, wherein the analysis is selected from the group consisting of latent semantic analysis, explicit semantic analysis, latent Dirichlet allocation, hierarchical Dirichlet process, non-negative matrix factorization, and expectation maximization;

extracting at least one topic from the analysis; and

adding the at least one topic to the metadata tag for the application object.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein generating the metadata tag comprises:

retrieving an application category for the application; and

adding the application category to the metadata tag as a topic for the application object.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the application category for the application is retrieved from an application store.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein generating the metadata tag comprises:

retrieving a set of tags from the application.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the application determines the set of tags based on at least a publicly set of available tags.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the donated content is metadata relating to objects used with the application.

19. A device to index donated content from an application on a device, the device comprising:

at least one processor;

memory coupled to the processor through a bus; and

a process executed from the memory by the processor that causes the processor to;

receive, with a device, donated content for an application object from the application;

associate a metadata tag for a topic to the donated content;

index the donated content with the metadata tag in a local search index of the device;

receive a query search request and performing a query search for the query search

request using the local search index to obtain a set of search results that includes the donated content; and

cause a presentation of a category for at least some of the set of search results using at least the metadata tag of the donated content.

20. The device of claim 19, wherein the donated content is metadata relating to objects used with the application.