Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Contextual secondary content for search results
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Application No.: US16382391Application Date: 2019-04-12
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Publication No.: US11176574B2Publication Date: 2021-11-16
- Inventor: Gayathri Ravichandran Geetha , Harita Yenisetty , Bhavani Kumar Hari , Jesse Kiefer
- Applicant: eBay Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: eBay Inc.
- Current Assignee: eBay Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.
- Main IPC: G06Q30/00
- IPC: G06Q30/00 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
A search server is configured to return secondary content associated with primary content determined to be relevant to a search query. One or more databases store: (1) information identifying primary content items returnable as search results, (2) information identifying secondary content items, and (3) data identifying associations among the primary content items and the secondary content items. When the search server receives a search query, the one or more databases are queried to identify primary content items relevant to the search query. Additionally, the one or more databases are queried to identify secondary content items associated with the identified primary content items. The secondary content items can be selected based on a number of the identified primary content items associated with each secondary content item in the one or more databases. The identified primary content items and selected secondary content items are returned as a response to the search query.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190236647A1 CONTEXTUAL SECONDARY CONTENT FOR SEARCH RESULTS Public/Granted day:2019-08-01
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