Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Dreamsquare Inc.

SangHyun Park

Yi Zheng

Yongzheng Zhang

Weidong Zhang

Chi-Yi Kuan

Yurong Shi

Weiqin Ma

Bin Wu

Hong Lu

Liwen Zhang

Srihari R Duddukuru

Shin Hwan Han

Jun Soo Yun

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a first configuration for processing a first set of content items from a first data source and a second configuration for processing a second set of content items from a second data source. For each content item in the first set of content items, the system uses mappings from the first configuration to transform original fields from the content item into required fields in a record representing the content item. Next, the system generates, from the required fields, a document key for the content item. The system also performs deduplication of multiple records with the document key and stores a single record with the document key. Finally, the system uses the second configuration to generate, from the second set of content items, a set of records independently of processing the first set of content items.

Scalable processing of heterogeneous user-generated content

A computer system crawls a plurality of web pages; parses the crawled information into state events and determines causality between any two of the state events; and stores the state events and the causality in a database. The system receives a first request from a user to determine a path to a target state. The system obtains a current state of the user. The system determines one or more paths from the current state of the user to the target state based on the current state of the user and the state events and the causality, including identifying one or more recommended state events, each recommended state event having a causality value for the target state that satisfies first preselected causality criteria; and provides at least one path from the current state of the user to the target state.

Methods and devices for collection and heuristic analysis of large-scale biographical information

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