Determining a filtering parameter for values displayed in an application card based on a user history

• US 10,146,880 B2
• Filed: 12/15/2015
• Issued: 12/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/15/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ben-Tzur, Jonathan
• Primary Examiner(s): Alam, Hosain T
• Application Number:
  US14/970,504
• Publication Number:
  US 20170169030A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,085 Days
• Field of Search: 707733
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

A card server that provides a card object to a mobile computing device in response to receiving a card request from the mobile computing device. The mobile computing device can utilize the card object to display an application card at the mobile computing device. The application card may include one or more multi-value data fields. A multi-value data field refers to a data field with multiple values. A multi-value data field may include a collapsed view, and an expanded view. The card object may specify a collapsed-view descriptor that can be displayed in the collapsed view. The card object may specify the values of the multi-value data field. Additionally, the card object may specify a filtering parameter that can be utilized to filter the values in the expanded view.

Claims

1. A card server configured to improve a display of a mobile computing device user interface, the card server comprising:

a network communication device;

a storage device, using non-transitory computer readable storage, that stores;

a user history data store that stores user history records, each user history record being associated with a user identifier (ID), each user history record comprises a browsing history and/or a search history; and

a card data store that stores application card records, each application card record comprises one or more multi-value data fields, each multi-value data field comprises;

a text string that represents a collapsed-view descriptor; and

expanded-view information that comprises a plurality of values, and a plurality of filtering parameters for filtering the values; and

at least one computer processor that executes computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the at least one computer processor, cause the at least one computer processor to;

receive, using the network communication device, a card request from a mobile computing device, the card request comprises a search query with one or more search terms, and a user ID;

identify a set of application card records from the card data store based on the search terms in the search query;

determine a relevance score for each application card record in the set of application card records, the relevance score for a card record indicates the relevance of the card record to the search query;

select an application card record from the set of application card records based on the relevance scores of the application card records;

identify a user history record associated with the card request based on the user ID specified in the card request;

for each multi-value field in the selected application card record, select a current filtering parameter from the plurality of filtering parameters based on the browsing history and/or the search history indicated by the user history record associated with the card request;

generate a card object that comprises the one or more multi-value data fields from the selected application card record, and indicates the selected filtering parameter for the values in the multi-value data field; and

transmit, using the network communication device, the card object to the mobile computing device,

wherein each value from the plurality of values is associated with one or more of the filtering parameters such that only values that are associated with the selected filtering parameter are displayed at the mobile computing device.

2. The card server of claim 1, wherein the browsing history comprises a list of web uniform resource locators (URLs) for web pages, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected on the web pages;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of web URLs includes a web URL for a web page associated with the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected on the web page associated with the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.

3. The card server of claim 1, wherein the browsing history comprises a list of application resource identifiers (ARIs) that identify application states, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected in the application states;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of ARIs includes an ARI for an application state associated with the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected through the application state associated with the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.

4. The card server of claim 1, wherein the search history comprises a list of search queries that the card server previously received from the mobile computing device;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

identifying previous search queries from the mobile computing device that include the filtering parameters as search terms; and

selecting the filtering parameter that appears most frequently in the previous search queries.

5. The card server of claim 1, wherein each user history record comprises a card record history that includes a list of card record identifiers (IDs) for application card records that have been utilized to render application cards at the mobile computing device, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected via a previous application card;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of card record IDs includes a card record ID for the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected through the previous application card rendered based on the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.

6. The card server of claim 1, wherein each application card record is associated with a card record ID that identifies the application card record, and wherein identifying the set of application card records comprises:

querying a data structure associated with the card data store, which maps keywords to the card record IDs, with the search terms of the search query; and

receiving the card record IDs for the application card records that correspond with the search terms.

7. The card server of claim 1, wherein determining the relevance score for each application card record comprises:

computing a set of scoring features for the application card record; and

determining the relevance score for the application card record based on the scoring features, and a machine-learned model.

8. The card server of claim 1, wherein selecting the application card record from the set of application card records comprises selecting the application card record with the highest relevance score.

9. The card server of claim 1, wherein identifying the user history record associated with the card request comprises:

querying an inverted index associated with the user history data store with the user ID specified in the card request; and

receiving the user history record associated with the user ID in response to querying the inverted index.

10. The card server of claim 1, wherein the expanded-view information further comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) template;

and wherein selecting the current filtering parameter comprises parameterizing the URL template with the current filtering parameter.

11. A computer-implemented method for providing a card object for rendering an application card and for improving a display of a mobile computing device user interface, the computer-implemented method comprising:

storing, at a storage device of a card server, a user history data store that stores user history records, each user history record being associated with a user identifier (ID), each user history record comprises a browsing history and/or a search history;

storing, at the storage device, a card data store that stores application card records, each application card record comprises one or more multi-value data fields, each multi-value data field comprises;

a text string that represents a collapsed-view descriptor; and

expanded-view information that comprises a plurality of values, and a plurality of filtering parameters for filtering the values;

receiving, via a network communication device of the card server, a card request from a mobile computing device, the card request comprises a search query with one or more search terms, and a user ID;

identifying, at a at least one computer processor of the card server, a set of application card records from the card data store based on the search terms in the search query;

determining, at the at least one computer processor, a relevance score for each application card record in the set of application card records, the relevance score for an application card record indicates the relevance of the application card record to the search query;

selecting, by the at least one computer processor, a card record from the set of application card records based on the relevance scores of the application card records;

identifying, by the at least one computer processor, a user history record associated with the card request based on the user ID specified in the card request;

for each multi-value field in the selected application card record, selecting a current filtering parameter from the plurality of filtering parameters based on the browsing history and/or the search history indicated by the user history record associated with the card request;

generating, by the at least one computer processor, a card object that comprises the one or more multi-value data fields from the selected application card record, and indicates the selected filtering parameter for the values in the multi-value data field; and

transmitting, via the network communication device, the card object to the mobile computing device,

wherein each value from the plurality of values is associated with one or more of the filtering parameters such that only values that are associated with the selected filtering parameter are displayed at the mobile computing device.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the browsing history comprises a list of web uniform resource locators (URLs) for web pages, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected on the web pages;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of web URLs includes a web URL for a web page associated with the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected on the web page associated with the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the browsing history comprises a list of application resource identifiers (ARIs) that identify application states, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected in the application states;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of ARIs includes an ARI for an application state associated with the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected through the application state associated with the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 11, wherein the search history comprises a list of search queries that the card server previously received from the mobile computing device;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

identifying previous search queries from the mobile computing device that include the filtering parameters as search terms; and

selecting the filtering parameter that appears most frequently in the previous search queries.

15. A computer program product configured to improve a display of a mobile computing device user interface, the computer program product encoded on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising instructions that when executed by a at least one computer processor, of a card server, cause the at least one computer processor to perform operations comprising:

receiving, via a network communication device of the card server, a card request from a mobile computing device, the card request comprises a search query with one or more search terms, and a user ID;

identifying, at the at least one computer processor of the card server, a set of application card records from a card data store based on the search terms in the search query;

determining, at the at least one computer processor, a relevance score for each application card record in the set of application card records, the relevance score for an application card record indicates the relevance of the application card record to the search query;

selecting, by the at least one computer processor, an application card record from the set of card records based on the relevance scores of the card records;

identifying, by the processing device at least one computer processor, a user history record associated with the card request based on the user ID specified in the card request, the user history record indicating a browsing history and/or a search history for a user identified by the user ID;

for each multi-value field in the selected application card record, selecting a current filtering parameter from the plurality of filtering parameters based on the browsing history and/or the search history indicated by the user history record associated with the card request;

generating, by the at least one computer processor, a card object that comprises the one or more multi-value data fields from the selected application card record, and indicates the selected filtering parameter for the values in the multi-value data field; and

transmitting, via the network communication device, the card object to the mobile computing device,

wherein each value from the plurality of values is associated with one or more of the filtering parameters such that only values that are associated with the selected filtering parameter are displayed at the mobile computing device.

16. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the browsing history comprises a list of web uniform resource locators (URLs) for web pages, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected on the web pages;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of web URLs includes a web URL for a web page associated with the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected on the web page associated with the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.

17. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the browsing history comprises a list of application resource identifiers (ARIs) that identify application states, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected in the application states;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of ARIs includes an ARI for an application state associated with the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected through the application state associated with the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.

18. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein the search history comprises a list of search queries that the card server previously received from the mobile computing device;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

identifying previous search queries from the mobile computing device that include the filtering parameters as search terms; and

selecting the filtering parameter that appears most frequently in the previous search queries.

19. The computer program product of claim 15, wherein each user history record comprises a card record history that includes a list of card record identifiers (IDs) for application card records that have been utilized to render application cards at the mobile computing device, and form data that indicates previous filtering parameters selected via a previous application card;

and wherein selecting the filtering parameter comprises;

determining that the list of card record IDs includes a card record ID for the selected application card record;

retrieving the previous filtering parameters selected through the previous application card rendered based on the selected application card record; and

selecting the current filtering parameter based on the previous filtering parameters.