Patent Document ID: 20100299290
Application ID: 12848318
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
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 constituent parts; accessing, from classification information stored in a computer storage medium that includes patterns of query phrases, a pattern that is associated with at least one category; determining whether a constituent part parsed from the received query phrase corresponds to at least a subportion of an accessed pattern; based on a determination that a constituent part parsed from the received query phrase corresponds to at least a subportion of an accessed pattern, associating the category that is associated with the pattern also with the query phrase or the constituent part; and identifying at least one search resource for satisfying the query phrase based on the associated category.