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Systems and methods for performing background queries from content and activity

  • US 7,225,187 B2
  • Filed: 04/20/2004
  • Issued: 05/29/2007
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system that facilitates background searching across a plurality of data sources, comprising:

  • a background processor that analyzes a current user input to at least one application in real time to automatically determine terms for potential queries of interest from the current user input and constructs an implicit query from the terms, the determination of terms is based at least on a frequency of occurrence of the terms in the application;

    an implicit query interface associated with the application, the implicit query interface presents results retrieved upon a search employing the constructed queries to a user; and

    at least one model for estimating a value of the results of the constructed implicit query, so that a rendering of the results is suppressed when the value of the results falls below a threshold of value,wherein the threshold value is dynamically computed based on a user'"'"'s context.

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