Patent ID: 9405803
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for retrieving information, comprising: receiving a search query within an information retrieval system; identifying search results responsive to the search query from a first information corpus and a second information corpus, wherein the first information corpus and the second information corpus each correspond to different search engines selected from: a music search engine for searching one or more of a music track, a music album, and a music artist, an application (app) search engine for searching apps, a movie search engine for searching movies, and a book search engine for searching books; identifying search results responsive to the search query from a third information corpus, wherein the third information corpus comprises external information that relates to previous queries and to information about the subject of the query; determining a ranking signal associated with the first information corpus and the second information corpus, based on the search results from the third information corpus; and ranking the search results from the first information corpus and the second information corpus based on the ranking signal, wherein, if the ranking signal indicates that the first information corpus is more relevant to the query than the second information corpus, all results from the first corpus are ranked ahead of all results from the second corpus.