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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Nikola Todić, Belgrade, RS;
Fedor Vladimirovich Borisyuk, Redmond, WA (US);
Nikola Nebori{hacek over (s)}ević, Belgrade, RS;
Andrija Jandrlić, Belgrade, RS;
Nemanja Marsenić, Belgrade, RS;
Siddhika Nevrekar, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems for generating and storing entity chain information, and for responding to search queries according to the entity chain information is presented. As a service obtains information regarding geographic entities, a plurality of entity records corresponding to each of a plurality of geographic entities is created (or updated) in an entity store. The service then analyzes the plurality of geographic entities (via the entity information in each of the entity records) to identify geographic entities that belong to an entity chain. Information regarding the identified entity chains are then also stored in the entity store.