Patent ID: 9734244
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for providing feedback to a user, the method comprising: receiving a symbol comprising a plurality of terms from a user; retrieving a user profile associated with the user; modifying the symbol by applying a weight to each term of the plurality of terms based on an attribute of the user profile, wherein the applied weight is inversely correlated to a degree to which a respective term matches the attribute of the user profile; performing a search based on the modified symbol; generating for display search results returned by the search; performing another search that is based on the symbol as it was prior to modifying the symbol; and generating for display additional search results returned by the another search, wherein a search result of the search results generated for display based on the search performed based on the modified symbol is generated for display simultaneously with the additional search results.