Patent ID: 7599916
Filing Date: 2009-10-06
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of performing a search, comprising: associating a plurality of user events for a user with content tags according to a pre-searching procedure, wherein the pre-searching procedure comprises: associating the content tiles with the one or more documents in the document collection by comparing the feature vectors of the one or more documents and the plurality of grid feature vectors of the content tiles and, based on the comparison, identifying the feature vectors corresponding to one or more grid feature vectors of the plurality of grid feature vectors; receiving a search query from the user; selecting one or more of the associated content tags according to characteristics of the plurality of user events; modifying the received search query with the one or more selected content tags; comparing the modified received search query against the one or more documents of the document collection to find a match; and at least temporarily storing the one or more matching documents in association with the modified received search query on computer storage medium.