SEARCH IN A MULTI-RELATIONSHIP SOCIAL NETWORK

• Main Authors: NOELLE XAVIER, NAIBO ALEXIS L, DUMANT BRUNO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 19.04.2012
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

Some aspects include reception, from an entity, of a search query to identify entities, determination of one or more entity clusters associated with the entity, determination of a search result based on the search query, the search result including two or more result entities, and presentation of the two or more result entities in an order based on the one or more entity clusters. According to some aspects, the search query is modified based on the determined one or more entity clusters, the search result is determined based on the modified search query and associates a respective relevance score with each result entity. The relevance score indicates a relevance of a result entity to the modified search query, and the two or more result entities are presented according to their respective relevance scores. In some aspects, each of the two or more result entities is associated with a respective relevance score, two of the two or more result entities are determined to be associated with a same relevance score, and the relevance score associated with each of the two of the two or more result entities is modified based on the one or more entity clusters associated with the entity, and on entity clusters associated with each of the two of the two or more result entities. Moreover, the two of the two or more result entities are presented according to their modified relevance scores.