Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Glen H Anderson

John Carlton Platt

Gina Danielle Venolia

Ajitesh Kishore

Sunil Swami

Adel Shrufi

Patricia Ryan

Sameer S Mahajan

Bob Vogt

A data model models a social network. The data model can be embodied as a person profile schema and a connector profile schema. The person profile schema defines properties of persons in the social network. The connector profile schema defines connectivity properties of persons that connect a searcher to the persons in social network that the searcher desires to find. Query languages can be based on the data model and can be used to express queries of social networks. Queries can be for persons, for connecting persons, or for both.

Querying social networks

A method and system for providing business context corresponding to unstructured documents is provided. A business context correlation system analyzes the contents of a user's unstructured document, identifies the business context of the unstructured document from the analyzed contents, and presents the business context along with the unstructured document to the user. The business context includes the relevant contextual objects and documents associated with one or more business applications. Providing a view of the business context along with the unstructured document allows the user more fully understand and act on the displayed document.

Implicit, specialized search of business objects using unstructured text

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Glen H Anderson