Yahoo! Inc.

Excalibur Ip, LLC

Anish Das Sarma

Alpa Jain

Cong Yu

Philip Lewis Bohannon

Chris Olston

Lujun Fang

Methods and systems are provided that may be utilized to determine one or more suggestions of entities relating to a user query.

Method and system for generating query-related suggestions

Implementations of methods, apparatuses, or systems are disclosed to facilitate search related communications. In at least one implementation, a method may include processing search queries based at least in part on one or more search query parameters to identify candidate search queries for an exchange of related communications, wherein candidate search queries originate from different special purpose computing system resources and/or different users.

Socializing via search

Method, system, and programs for detecting dynamic relationship and discovering dynamic events. Data from a first data source is first received. At least one dynamic relation candidate is identified and each dynamic relation candidate involves multiple entities. The at least one dynamic relation candidate is identified based on temporal properties with respect to the entities exhibited in the data from the first data source. Dynamic relations are then extracted by corroborating the temporal properties of the entities involved in the at least one dynamic relation candidate with that of the same entities exhibited in data from a second data source. Then, a dynamic event that gives rise to the dynamic relations among different entities is detected.

Method and system for discovering dynamic relations among entities

Method, system, and programs for providing one or more explanations. An inquiry is received via a communication platform where the inquiry is about how a set of entities are related. Information is retrieved from a knowledge storage in accordance with the set of entities and such information describes a plurality of entities and relationships existing among the plurality of entities. Based on such retrieved information, one or more explanations with respect to each relationship by which the set of entities are connected are generated. The one or more explanations are then transmitted as a response to the inquiry.

Display entity relationship

Method, system, and programs for heterogeneous data management. Information from multiple data sources is first obtained. Data/metadata from each of the data sources is modeled based on the source and/or granularity information of the data/metadata to generate data/metadata models. The data/metadata from multiple data sources are integrated, by applying one or more processes to the data/metadata from different data sources based on the data/metadata models, to generate integrated data/metadata. A provenance representation for the integrated data/metadata is created tracing sources, granularities, and/or processes applied and archived for enabling an query associated with the integrated data/metadata.

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Anish Das Sarma