Patent ID: 9507804
Filing Date: 2016-11-29
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method performed by a data processing apparatus, the method comprising: generating, for each of a plurality of images, a selection vector for the image, each selection vector including a plurality of vector elements, each vector element corresponding to a unique search query, and the value of each vector element being proportional to a number of user selections of the image when the image is presented as a search result in response to the unique search query; selecting a first image and a second image from the plurality of images; and determining, from the selection vectors for the first and second images, a similarity measure that is a measurement of the similarity of the first image to the second image; providing, based on the similarity measure exceeding a specified threshold and in response to a query received from a client device, data that presents the first and second images at the client device.