Enabling multidimensional search on non-PC devices
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented process for enabling multidimensional search capabilities on a computing device, other than a desktop personal computer or a laptop computer, being utilized by a user, comprising:
- using said computing device to perform the following process actions;
receiving an original query submitted by the user via the computing device;
accessing a structured data repository to extract structured data that is available for the original query, wherein the extracted structured data represents attributes of the original query;
providing the extracted structured data to the user in the form of a hierarchical menu which allows the user to interactively modify the original query by selecting at least one item from the hierarchical menu, such modification resulting in a revised query;
submitting the revised query to a search service;
receiving search results for the revised query from the search service; and
providing the search results to the user via the computing device.
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Abstract
Multidimensional search capabilities are enabled on a non-PC (personal computer) device being utilized by a user. An original query submitted by the user via the non-PC device is received. A structured data repository is accessed to extract structured data that is available for the original query, where the extracted structured data represents attributes of the original query. The extracted structured data is provided to the user in the form of a hierarchical menu which allows the user to interactively modify the original query, such modification resulting in a revised query.
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18 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented process for enabling multidimensional search capabilities on a computing device, other than a desktop personal computer or a laptop computer, being utilized by a user, comprising:
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using said computing device to perform the following process actions; receiving an original query submitted by the user via the computing device; accessing a structured data repository to extract structured data that is available for the original query, wherein the extracted structured data represents attributes of the original query; providing the extracted structured data to the user in the form of a hierarchical menu which allows the user to interactively modify the original query by selecting at least one item from the hierarchical menu, such modification resulting in a revised query; submitting the revised query to a search service; receiving search results for the revised query from the search service; and providing the search results to the user via the computing device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A system for allowing a user to submit queries to a search service for particular online information he is interested in, comprising:
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a computing device; and a computer program having program modules executable by the computing device, wherein the computing device is directed by the program modules of the computer program to, receive an original query submitted by the user via the computing device, access a structured data repository to extract structured data that is available for the original query, wherein the extracted structured data represents attributes of the original query, provide the extracted structured data to the user in the form of a hierarchical menu which allows the user to interactively modify the original query by selecting at least one item from the hierarchical menu, such modification resulting in a revised query, submit the revised query to the search service, receive search results for the revised query from the search service, and provide the search results to the user. - View Dependent Claims (17)
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18. A computer-implemented process for enabling multidimensional search capabilities on computing device, other than a desktop personal computer or a laptop computer, being utilized by a user, comprising:
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using said computing device to perform the following process actions; receiving an original query submitted by the user via the computing device, wherein the computing device comprises an audio capture device, and said receiving comprising the actions of, using the audio capture device to capture one or more query terms which are spoken by the user, using a speech recognition application to convert the captured query terms to text-based query terms, searching for matches to the text-based query terms in a dictionary of known words and word phrases, whenever more than one matching word or word phrase is found in the dictionary, providing each matching word or word phrase found in the dictionary to the user, and assigning the matching words or word phrases which are selected by the user to be the original query, and whenever just one matching word or word phrase is found in the dictionary, assigning the one matching word or word phrase to be the original query; identifying entities and properties that are either explicitly or implicitly present in the original query; for each identified entity, querying a structured data repository to identify types of said entity that are possible, and for each identified type of said entity that is possible, querying the structured data repository to identify properties of said type that are possible; for each identified property, querying the structured data repository to identify entities that could have said property; providing the identified entities, the identified types of each identified entity, the identified properties of each identified type of each identified entity, the identified properties, and the identified entities that could have each identified property to the user in the form of a hierarchical menu which allows the user to interactively modify the original query by selecting at least one item from the hierarchical menu, such modification resulting in a revised query; using a method for integrating specialized knowledge sources into a general search service to select one or more target search engines each of which are determined to have a degree of relevance to the revised query that is higher than a prescribed threshold; submitting the revised query to each target search engine; receiving search results for the revised query from each target search engine; and providing the search results to the user via the computing device.
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