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Query completions in the context of a user's own document

  • US 9,135,250 B1
  • Filed: 02/22/2013
  • Issued: 09/15/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • receiving a partial query entered into a search field on a computing device, and receiving data indicating a document presented on the computing device during entry of the partial query, wherein the presented document has been edited by a user of the computing device;

    obtaining a set of candidate query completions for the partial query;

    identifying one or more search result documents for each of one or more respective candidate query completions in the set;

    calculating similarity scores for candidate query completions in the set, wherein calculating a similarity score for a given candidate query completion of the set of candidate query completions is based at least in part on a similarity between content in the presented document and content in the one or more search result documents identified for the given candidate query completion;

    selecting one or more of the candidate query completions in the set as refined query completions for the partial query based at least in part on the similarity scores; and

    providing the refined query completions for presentation by the computing device.

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