Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Michael B Taylor

Lijiang Fang

Winnie C Wu

Paul J Leach

Dmitriy Meyerzon

Mark H Lucovsky

Richard Bruce Ward

Shaun Douglas Pierce

Burra Gopal

Peter Sewall Ford

Vladimir Tankovich

Samuel John George

Jay Christopher Jacobs

Steven D White

Michael Eric Deem

Paul Andrew Steckler

Jagadeesh Kalki

William Raymond Hoffman

Stephen Robertson

Ramu Movva

Suresh Kannan

Walter C Hsueh

David Benjamin Auerbach

Kendall D Keil

Yun-Qi Yuan

Yi-Wen Guu

Philip Michael Smoot

Nigel Robin Ellis

Michael Pizzo

Anil Kumar Nori

Michael Jack Newman

Gregory Scott Friedman

Jian H Li

Bekim Demiroski

Edward G Sheppard

Sanjay Nagamangalam

Techniques to perform relative ranking for search results are described. An apparatus may include an enhanced search component operative to receive a search query and provide ranked search results responsive to the search query. The enhanced search component may comprise a resource search module operative to search for resources using multiple search terms from the search query, and output a set of resources having some or all of the search terms. The enhanced search component may also comprise a proximity generation module communicatively coupled to the resource search module, the proximity generation module operative to receive the set of resources, retrieve search term position information for each resource, and generate a proximity feature value based on the search term position information. The enhanced search component may further comprise a resource ranking module communicatively coupled to the resource search module and the proximity generation module, the resource ranking module to receive the proximity feature values, and rank the resources based in part on the proximity feature values. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques to perform relative ranking for search results

Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a storage platform comprising: a data store in which data stored therein is defined in terms of items, elements, and relationships, wherein an item is a unit of data storable in the data store and comprises one or more elements, an element is an instance of a type comprising one or more fields, and a relationship is a link between at least two items; a set of schemas that define different types of items, elements, and relationships; and an application programming interface comprising a class for each of the different items, elements, and relationships defined in the set of schemas. Data may also be stored in the data store in the form of an extension to an existing item type, and wherein the application programming interface comprises a class for each different item extension.

Systems and methods for interfacing application programs with an item-based storage platform

The subject innovation provides a system and/or a method that facilitates developing schemas for a file storage system. A type definition component can provide a schema grammar, wherein a generator component can employ the schema grammar to build the schema for the file storage system. The schema grammar can describe information types stored in the file storage system that are represented as instances of complex types that are part of a type system that supports inheritance. The schema grammar can support a declaration of an association between types, versioning specifications, and/or content indexing specifications.

Schema grammar and compilation

A schema-based service for Internet access to per-user services data, wherein access to data is based on each user's identity. The service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The services schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the services schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner.

Schema-based services for identity-based data access

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