Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Related entities
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Application No.: US15241008Application Date: 2016-08-18
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Publication No.: US09916384B2Publication Date: 2018-03-13
- Inventor: Peter Jin Hong , Pravir K. Gupta , Nathaniel J. Gaylinn , Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar , Kavi J. Goel , Omer Bar-or , Jack W. Menzel , Christina R. Dhanaraj
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F17/30
- IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a first search query from a user device; receiving search results for the first search query provided by a search engine, wherein each of the search results identifies a respective resource; determining from the search results that the first search query relates to a first entity of a first entity type; determining that one or more entities of a second entity type have a predetermined relationship with the first entity; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second type to the user device as part of a response to the first search query.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160357868A1 RELATED ENTITIES Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
Information query