Patent ID: 11860930
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A method for displaying images to a user of a search engine based upon a query, the method comprising:
receiving a query from a user of a computing device;
identifying images based upon the query;
clustering the images into clusters, where the clusters include a first cluster, a second cluster, and a third cluster;
selecting a first image, for display, from the first cluster;
computing a first similarity score between the first image and a second image in the second cluster;
selecting the second image, for display, from the second cluster based upon the first similarity score;
computing a second similarity score between the first image and a third image in the third cluster;
selecting the third image, for display, from the third cluster based upon the second similarity score; and
based upon the first image, the second image, and the third image being selected, returning the first image, the second image, and the third image to the computing device to be displayed in an image row based upon the query.