Patent ID: 9298832
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method of facilitating collaborative group search, comprising: obtaining over a wide area network, a plurality of search queries initiated by a plurality of client devices; identifying a value of content relatedness of each search query of the plurality of search queries relative to each other search query of the plurality of search queries, the value based on a comparison of keywords of each search query to keywords of each other search query of the plurality of search queries; identifying a value of time proximity of each search query of the plurality of search queries relative to each other search query of the plurality of search queries; identifying a value of geographic proximity of each client device of the plurality of client devices relative each other client device of the plurality of client devices; identifying a group of two or more client devices from among the plurality of client devices, each client device of the group exhibiting: processing search queries initiated by the group of two or more client devices of the plurality of search queries via a search engine to obtain search results for the group having increased search result diversity relative to each other; and returning the search results for the group to the two or more client device of the group via the wide area network.