Patent ID: 9576055
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method performed by a search engine system, the method comprising: maintaining one or more search engine indexes, associated with the search engine system, each of which indexes base items and collection items that includes a first collection item; wherein each of the collection items: storing, in a search engine index, of the one or more search engine indexes, a first index entry for the first collection item; wherein the first index entry represents the first collection item itself, rather than any individual base items represented by the first collection item; in response to receiving a search query that is associated with one or more search criteria: responding to the search query by generating, based at least in part on the set of one or more matching items, one or more search results that indicate the first collection item; and wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.