Patent Document ID: 9805120
Application ID: 14180982

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: upon receiving a query, extracting features comprising language of the query, region of a user, both together called original language-region pair, and intent of the query, from the query; categorizing the intent of the query based on context of the query; receiving search results for the query for the original language-region pair; determining whether the query would benefit from issuing the query to another language-region pair based at least in part on the categorized intent and the features extracted from the query; and either: in response to determining that the query would benefit from being issued to another language-region pair: selecting another language-region pair; issuing the query to the other language-region pair; receiving search results for the other language-region pair; merging the search results for the original language-region pair with search results for the other language-region pair; and sending to end user equipment the merged search results; or in response to determining that the query would not benefit from being issued to another language-region pair, sending to end user equipment the search results for the query for the original language-region pair.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining whether the query would benefit from being issued to another language-region pair depends at least in part on whether the language of the query is a content poor language regarding the intent of the query.