Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Shubham Gupta

Parinkumar D Shah

Zheng Li

Ankit Gupta

Chao Zhang

Roshan Rajesh Sumbaly

Ying Xuan

Ali Sadiq Mohamed

Raghu Ram Hiremagalur Venkatesh

Swapnil Ghike

Divye Kapoor

Pujita Mathur

Suruchi H Shah

Hari Shankar Sreekumar Menon

Heidi Jaywing Wang

Brett Konold

Marco Varela Alvarado

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system stores a conversation containing a series of messages exchanged among a number of participants in a first document containing metadata for the conversation; a second document containing message content for the series of messages, wherein the message content includes a fixed position gap between starting or ending positions in consecutive messages in the series of messages; and one or more additional documents storing message metadata for individual messages in the conversation. Next, the system processes a first search across the series of messages in the conversation using an index of the set of documents. The system also processes, using the index, a second search within individual messages in the series of messages as a span query with a distance that is shorter than the fixed position gap.

Document structures for searching within and across messages

Techniques for enhancing usability and electronic resource efficiency using comment relevance are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a comment relevance system receives member feature data, including professional identity data such as professional experience or professional skill, and at least one of comment feature data and commenter feature data for comments for post on a social networking service, generates a score for each comment based on the member feature data and the comment or commenter feature data, ranks the comments based on the scores, and causes one or more of the comments to be displayed in a particular position based on the ranking. In some embodiments, the member feature data comprises professional identity data of a member of the social networking service, the comment feature data indicates at least one attribute of the comment, and the commenter feature data indicates at least one attribute of the commenter of the comment.

Usability and resource efficiency using comment relevance

The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system stores a set of feed updates associated with a set of entities in descending chronological order within a set of resizable blocks. For each entity in the set of entities, the system generates an index containing one or more lists of resizable blocks storing a subset of the feed updates associated with the entity, wherein the one or more lists are sorted in descending chronological order. The system then uses the index to generate a content feed containing a selection of the feed updates for outputting to a viewer.

Efficient indexing of feed updates for content feeds

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