Personalized search result summary

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9779172-B2
Application number	US-201414499563-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 29, 2014
Priority date	Mar 15, 2013
Publication date	Oct 3, 2017
Grant date	Oct 3, 2017

Abstract

Provided are techniques for displaying a personalized search result summary for a search result. A search result from executing a search query is received. A category of search for the search query is determined. A summary template is selected from a collection of summary templates based on the category of search. A personalized summary is generated using the selected summary template and the received search result.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
storing, with a processor of a computer, a collection of summary templates, wherein each summary template of the collection of summary templates includes a plurality of segments, wherein each of the plurality of segments has a segment search query that is based on metadata properties;
executing, with the processor of the computer, a search query associated with a first user identifier to obtain initial search results with an initial summary for each of the initial search results;
determining, with the processor of the computer, a category of search for the search query;
selecting, with the processor of the computer, a summary template associated with a second user identifier from the collection of summary templates based on the category of search and based on the first user identifier and the second user identifier matching;
for each search result of the initial search results, generating a new summary for each search result by:
executing, with the processor of the computer, the segment search query for each of the plurality of segments in the summary template to obtain new results for each of the plurality of segments; and
populating, with the processor of the computer, each of the plurality of segments of the summary template with the new results of the segment search query; and
displaying, with the processor of the computer, the initial search results by replacing the initial summary with the new summary for each of the initial search results.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving a new summary template; and
adding the new summary template to the collection of summary templates associated with a user identifier of a user who created the new summary template.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
comparing the initial search results with one or more rules that each specify a content type and content metadata to determine the category of search.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
selecting a second summary template from the collection of summary templates; and
generating another new summary according to the second summary template for each of the initial search results.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the collection of summary templates includes at least one summary template from a social networking channel.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Chang Billy W
• Rakshit Sarbajit K

Classifications

• G06F17/30864

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30867 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F17/30991

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06F16/9535 Primary

  Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation · CPC title

• G06F16/9538 Primary

  Presentation of query results · CPC title