US 12,346,337 B1
Advanced hybrid search syntax for power user content retrieval
Iam Palatnik de Sousa, Rio de Janeiro (BR); Paulo Abelha Ferreira, Rio de Janeiro (BR); David Burth Kurka, Campinas (BR); Karen Braga Enes, Belo Horizonte (BR); Pedro Fratini Chem, Porto Alegre (BR); and Vicente J. P. Amorim, João Monlevade (BR)
Assigned to Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products L.P., Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 22, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/642,558.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/245 (2019.01); G06F 16/2457 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/24578 (2019.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
enabling a user to define a query that comprises a hybrid search syntax (HSS), and the HSS comprises a lexical component and a semantic component;
receiving the query from the user;
parsing the lexical component and the semantic component into respective groups of one or more sub-components;
performing a lexical search based on the sub-components of the lexical component, and performing a semantic search based on the sub-components of the semantic component;
ranking, separately from each other, results of the lexical search and results of the semantic search;
combining the results of the lexical search and the results of the semantic search to create aggregate results; and
re-ranking the aggregate results.