Patent Document ID: 20160357786
Application ID: 15240926
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer system for providing a dynamic definitive image service, the system comprising: a processor and memory configured to execute software instructions embodied within the following components; an image data store that stores data regarding one or more images; an image request component that receives a request during a query for a definitive image that is representative of a topic of the query; an image mapping component that maps one or more query terms of the received request to one or more images that are related to the one or more query terms; an image ranking component that ranks the one or more identified images according to a relative likelihood of being a definitive image for the topic of the query; an editorial override component that provides an interface through which a human editor can manually override the definitive image selected by other components of the system to identify an editor-chosen definitive image; an image selection component that selects a definitive image based on images returned from the index, any overridden editor-chosen definitive image, and ranking input from the image ranking component; a retrieval component that retrieves an image binary associated with the selected definitive image; and an image response component that responds to the received request with the retrieved image binary.