Patent ID: 7636713
Filing Date: 2009-12-22
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for displaying search results to a user comprising: receiving, by a search engine, user input to perform a proximity query on a graph, wherein said graph includes one or more nodes and one or more edges; wherein said proximity query specifies (a) a particular node type, and (b) a predicate clause; executing, by the search engine, the proximity query, by: generating, by the search engine, a set of result clusters that include one or more result nodes from said set of candidate result nodes, wherein a result cluster is identified by a path to at least one activator node in said set of activator nodes; ranking, by the search engine, said one or more result nodes in said result clusters based on the activation value of each of the one or more result nodes in said result clusters; and based on the ranking, displaying to a user a representation of said result clusters; wherein the step of executing the proximity query is performed by one or more computing devices.