Emc Corporation

Hang Guo

Jidong Chen

David Stephen Reiner

A processing device of an information processing system is configured to detect bursts of activity associated with a particular user, to map the bursts to tasks performed by the user, to generate a user model based on the mapping of bursts to tasks, and to provide personalized query processing to the user based on the user model. The user model may comprise a Hidden Markov Model. In one embodiment, a query is received from the user in a current time window, and a model parameter is obtained. Based on the model parameter, a most likely task for the user in the current time window is identified, and based on the query, the most likely task, and user classification, search results are ranked for presentation to the user. The processing device may be configured to communicate the user model to a cloud service provider, and to receive from the cloud service provider the ranked search results determined based on the user model.

Task driven context-aware search

An embodiment of the current invention is a computer implemented method and computer product for searching resources of a computer system comprising, enabling a user to input a keyword, wherein the keyword is used to generate a list of search results corresponding to resources, enabling the user to select one or more filters of a plurality of filters, wherein selection of a filter filters the list of search results of the resources and displaying the resources and associations between the filtered list of the resources based on the keyword and selection of filters; wherein the associations represent a user's interactions with the resources of the computer system. An alternative embodiment of the current invention is a computer implemented method and computer product for creating searchable associations of a user's interaction with a computer system's resources comprising recording the user's interactions with the computer system's resources, and creating associations between the resources based on the user's interactions.

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