Patent ID: 9058390
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented user interface method of presenting results of a search customized using content preferences learned about a user, the method comprising: receiving a user input action for interacting with an application on a user device; in response to receiving the user input action, sending query information to at least two search engines, the query information including user information, the user information including (i) context information describing the environment in which the user input action was received, the context information adapted into a syntax understandable by at least one of the at least two search engines, and (ii) a user signature representing content preferences learned about the user; receiving at least one set of search results and auxiliary information from at least one of the at least two search engines in response to sending the query information, the auxiliary information of the set including information describing attributes of the search result of the set that led to the search result being chosen by the at least one of the at least two search engines; ordering the at least one search result based at least in part on the auxiliary information; and presenting the ordered search results to the user.