Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Oystein Fledsberg

Michael James Taylor

Torbjorn Helvik

Lars Hagen

Helge Grenager Solheim

Bård Kvalheim

Kjetil Krogvig Bergstrand

Rezaul Hoque

Simon Thoresen Hult

Azmil Macksood

Vidar Tveoy Knudsen

Olav Hamang Bru

Users are most likely to search for documents 'around' them, such as documents which are created, read, or modified by other users they work closely or collaborate with, documents on sites the user frequents, and/or documents trending around them, in addition to documents they've created or interacted with themselves. Therefore, embodiments are directed to relevance ranking of query results based on external context. A search service may receive a query and an external context list, determine a relevance value for each entry in the external context list, and perform the query, where a search index comprising items may be returned in response to performance of the query. The search service may then match entries in the external context list against associated properties of the items, compute a score for the items based on the matching, and rank results of the query based on the score computed for the items.

Rank query results for relevance utilizing external context

A server system comprising a physically separate storage area for each of a plurality of respective parties including a first and second party, and a manager function for managing the storage. E.g. some of the storage areas may be in separate server units or at separate geographic locations. Each of at least some of the storage areas stores a primary instance of one or more data resources of the respective party. The manager function is configured so as, in response to the second party forming a relationship with one of the resources of the first party, establish a secondary copy of said one of the resources of the first party in the respective storage area of the second party. Further, when the primary instance is updated with a change, the manager function automatically propagates the change in the primary instance to the secondary copy in the second party's storage area.

Modifying data resources within party-partitioned storage areas

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