US 12,265,582 B2
Query modality recommendation for e-commerce search
Arnon Dagan, Kfar Vitkin (IL); Slava Novgorodov, Rishon LeZion (IL); and Ido Guy, Haifa (IL)
Assigned to eBay Inc, San Jose, CA (US)
Filed by eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 6, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/569,876.
Prior Publication US 2023/0214431 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 16/9532 (2019.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 16/9532 (2019.01) [G06Q 30/0641 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. One or more non-transitory computer storage media storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, the operations comprising:
receiving a search query in a first query modality at a search engine;
identifying one or more dominant categories associated with search results for the search query;
determining a performance of the one or more dominant categories for the first query modality and a second query modality based on a first distribution of categories associated with historical search queries in the first query modality and a second distribution of categories associated with historical search queries in the second query modality, the first query modality being a different form of a search query than the second query modality, wherein the historical search queries in the second query modality are associated with a second set of search results for an item associated with the search query that was purchased;
based on the performance of the one or more dominant categories for the first query modality and the second query modality, causing a recommendation to use the second query modality to be displayed; and
receiving a second search query in the second query modality.