Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for generating lateral concepts are provided. The system includes a search engine to receive user queries, a storage to store content and its associated categories, and a lateral concept generator. The lateral concept generator is connected to both the search engine and storage. The lateral concept generator selects lateral concepts from categories associated with the content based on similarity scores for the stored content.

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›1.independentA computer-implemented method for presenting a user with lateral concepts corresponding to a search query, the method further comprising:nreceiving a …+9

›2.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein the categories include phrases.d2

›3.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein the categories comprise attributes of the content.d2

›4.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein the content is represented as a feature vector.d2+3

›8.↳ 1The method of claim 1, further comprising: displaying the top three lateral concepts to a user that provided the user query.d2

›9.↳ 1The method of claim 1, further comprising: storing the lateral concepts in the storage.d2

›10.↳ 1The method of claim 1, wherein selecting a subset of the plurality of identified categories as lateral concepts further comprises: determining similar…d2

›11.independentOne or more hardware computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions for performing a method to generate lateral concepts, the method…+7

›19.independentA computer system having processors and memories configured to generate lateral concepts, the system further comprising:na search engine configured to…+1

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IPC · International Patent Classification

Section G — Physics

G06F17/00
G06F17/30
G06F7/00

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707/706707/722

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related publication	US 20110196851 A1	11 Aug 2011

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