Reformatting queries for search engines and data repositories

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016140228-A1
Application number	US-201313778379-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 27, 2013
Priority date	Feb 27, 2013
Publication date	May 19, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The specification relates to providing a reformatted search query to a specific back end search engine or data repository. The search query is reformatted by identifying a domain of a search query. Based on the domain, a specific back end search engine or data repository associated with the domain is chosen to receive the reformatted query. The reformatting of the query is performed using a set of rules for the chosen back-end server. The reformatted query is sent to the at least one back-end server.

First claim

1 . A method comprising the steps of:
receiving, from a client device, a search query; determining, from the search query, a predefined pattern satisfied by the search query, the pattern being one of a plurality of predefined patterns and including an entity and one or more attributes, and wherein the pattern is determined based on one or more terms of the search query; mapping the determined pattern to a particular domain using an index relating particular patterns to domains, wherein the particular domain indicates a subject area of the search query; determining a particular search engine from a plurality of distinct search engines based on the particular domain, wherein each search engine is associated with one or more domains; reformatting the search query specifically for the determined search engine based on a set of rules of the determined search engine; sending the reformatted search query to the determined search engine; receiving, from the determined search engine, one or more search results in response to the search query; analyzing the one or more search results using the determined pattern from the search query to generate a single result that is relevant to the search query; and providing the single result to the client device.

2 . The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:
recognizing a plurality of refinement information; and
rewriting the search query based on the refinement information.

3 . The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:
rewriting the search query based on the determined pattern.

4 . The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:
identifying language conversions from the search query; and
rewriting the search query based on the language conversions.

5 . The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:
formatting the single result.

6 . The method of claim 5 , wherein the single result is provided to the client device in an audio format.

7 . A system comprising:
one or more processors; one or more computer-readable storage mediums containing instructions configured to cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving, from a client device, a search query; determining, from the search query, a predefined pattern satisfied by the search query, the pattern being one of a plurality of predefined patterns and including an entity and one or more attributes, and wherein the pattern is determined based on one or more terms of the search query; mapping the determined pattern to a particular domain using an index relating particular patterns to domains, wherein the particular domain indicates a subject area of the search query; determining a particular search engine from a plurality of distinct search engines based on the particular domain, wherein each search engine is associated with one or more domains; reformatting the search query specifically for the determined search engine based on a set of rules of the determined search engine; and sending the reformatted search query to the determined search engine; receiving, from the determined search engine, one or more search results in response to the search query; analyzing the one or more search results using the determined pattern from the search query to generate a single result that is relevant to the search query; and providing the single result to the client device.

8 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprises the steps of:
recognizing a plurality of refinement information; and rewriting the search query based on the refinement information.

9 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprises the step of:
rewriting the search query based on the determined pattern.

10 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprises the steps of:
identifying language conversions from the search query; and rewriting the search query based on the language conversions.

11 . The system of claim 7 , wherein the operations further comprises the step of:
formatting the single result.

12 . The system of claim 11 , wherein the single result is provided to the client device in an audio format.

13 . A computer-program product, the product tangibly embodied in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium, including instructions configured to cause a data processing apparatus to:
receive, from a client device, a search query; determine, from the search query, a predefined pattern satisfied by the search query, the pattern being one of a plurality of predefined patterns and including an entity and one or more attributes, and wherein the pattern is determined based on one or more terms of the search query; map the determined pattern to a particular domain using an index relating particular patterns to domains, wherein the particular domain indicates a subject area of the search query; determine a particular search engine from a plurality of distinct search engines based on the particular domain, wherein each search engine is associated with one or more domains; reformat the search query specifically for the determined search engine based on a set of rules of the determined search engine; send the reformatted search query to the determined search engine; receive, from the determined search engine, one or more search results in response to the search query; analyze the one or more search results using the determined pattern from the search query to generate a single result that is relevant to the search query; and provide the single result to the client device.

14 . The computer-program product of claim 13 further including instructions configured to cause the data processing apparatus to:
recognizing a plurality of refinement information; and
rewrite the search query based on the refinement information.

15 . The computer-program product of claim 13 further including instructions configured to cause the data processing apparatus to:
rewrite the search query based on the determined pattern.

16 . The computer-program product of claim 13 further including instructions configured to cause the data processing apparatus to:
identify language conversions from the search query; and
rewrite the search query based on the language conversions.

17 . The computer-program product of claim 13 further including instructions configured to cause the data processing apparatus to:
format the single result.

18 . The computer-program product of claim 17 , wherein the single result is provided to the client device in an audio format.

19 . The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of:
associating the determined entity with a proper name; and
rewriting the search query based on the proper name.

20 . The method of claim 3 , wherein determining the pattern based on the context of the search query comprises the step of:
mapping the pattern to a domain index.

Assignees

• Google Inc
• Google Inc

Inventors

• Cohen Tal
• Benisrael Yaacov

Classifications

• G06F16/951 Primary

  Indexing; Web crawling techniques · CPC title

• G06F16/9532 Primary

  Query formulation · CPC title

• G06F17/30864 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/3332

  Query translation · CPC title