Patent Document ID: 7779009
Application ID: 11340843

Base Claim:
1. A method, performed at least partially on a computer, for enabling satisfaction of a search responsive to a query based on classification of the query, the method comprising: receiving, from user input, a query phrase; parsing the received query phrase into at least a first constituent part and a second constituent part; determining definitional information of the first constituent part; determining a first category associated with the received query phrase by performing a first classification process that uses the determined definitional information of the first constituent part and the second constituent part, the first classification process including: accessing, from classification information stored in a computer storage medium that includes patterns, a pattern that is associated with at least one category, the pattern including a first part and a second part; comparing the determined definitional information of the first constituent part with the first part included in the accessed pattern and comparing the second constituent part with the second part included in the accessed pattern; based on the comparison results, determining whether the second constituent part and the determined definitional information of the first constituent part correspond to at least a subportion of the accessed pattern; based on a determination that the second constituent part and the determined definitional information of the first constituent part correspond to at least a subportion of the accessed pattern, identifying the category that is associated with the pattern as the first category associated with the received query phrase; determining a second category associated with the received query phrase by performing a second classification process that uses the determined definitional information of the first constituent part and the second constituent part, the second classification process being different than the first classification process; determining whether the first category determined by the first classification process matches the second category determined by the second classification process; in response to a determination that the first category matches the second category, associating the received query phrase with a category that corresponds to the first category and the second category; in response to a determination that the first category does not match the second category: selecting, from among the first category and the second category, a single category; and associating the received query phrase with the single category selected; identifying at least one search resource for satisfying the received query phrase based on the associated category; and routing the received query phrase to the at least one identified search resource.

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Claim 15:
15. The method of claim 1 wherein: determining definitional information of the first constituent part comprises determining a description of the first constituent part; the first part of the accessed pattern comprises a description; and comparing the determined definitional information of the first constituent part with the first part of the accessed pattern comprises comparing the determined description of the first constituent part with the description included in the accessed pattern.