Patent 9785678 was granted and assigned to Amazon on October, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Disclosed are various embodiments for a node selection application. Utility nodes are selected from a taxonomy according to utility scores with respect to a search query. Relevant nodes are selected from the taxonomy according to relevance scores with respect to the search query. A collection of taxonomy nodes is recommended according to a convergence between the utility nodes and the relevant nodes.