Patent ID: 11914582
Assignee: YAHOO ASSETS LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory machine readable medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions that when executed cause performance of operations, the operations comprising:
determining, based upon one or more keywords and a historical query database comprising a plurality of historical queries, a plurality of queries associated with the one or more keywords;
generating, based upon a plurality of search sessions associated with the plurality of historical queries, a plurality of relationship scores associated with the plurality of queries determined based upon the historical query database comprising the plurality of historical queries, wherein:
a first search session of the plurality of search sessions corresponds to one or more searches performed via a second device using one or more queries of the plurality of historical queries; and
a relationship score of the plurality of relationship scores is associated with a relationship between a query of the plurality of queries and the one or more keywords;

determining a first query path associated with the one or more keywords, wherein the first query path comprises a first query, of the plurality of queries, corresponding to a first step of the first query path and one or more second queries, of the plurality of queries, corresponding to a second step of the first query path; and
determining a second query path associated with the one or more keywords, wherein the second query path comprises a third query, of the plurality of queries, corresponding to a first step of the second query path and one or more fourth queries, of the plurality of queries, corresponding to a second step of the second query path.