Patent ID: 8990240
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system to predict search results in an electronic environment, the system comprising: a communications module to establish a stable connection protocol and then to receive a query, the query including a plurality of characters received in a first single communications packet, a number of the plurality of characters received by the communications module being based on a size to fit within the first single communications packet; and a query engine coupled to the communications module, the query engine having one or more processors to use the plurality of characters from the query received in the first single communications packet to predictively match a plurality of keywords stored within a data structure, the predictive matching of the plurality of keywords being determined by matching one or more prefixes of a list of equivalent keywords stored within the data structure to the plurality of characters, the plurality of keywords being selected from the list of equivalent keywords by making a determination of the most probable keywords for the query received, the query engine further to form a single response to the query based on the most probable keywords, a number of the plurality of keywords to be sent within the single response being based on a size to fit within a second single communications packet to be transmitted.