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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2009
Susan T. Dumais, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jonathan Louis Elsas, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Daniel John Liebling, Seattle, WA (US);
Susan T. Dumais, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jonathan Louis Elsas, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Daniel John Liebling, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system described herein includes a receiver component that receives a first dataset, wherein the first dataset comprises temporal dynamics pertaining to a document that is accessible by a search engine, wherein the temporal dynamics comprise an identity of a term corresponding to the document and an indication that the term has been subject to change over time. The system also includes a weight assignor component that assigns a relevance weight to the document based at least in part upon the temporal dynamics pertaining to the document, wherein the relevance weight is utilized by the search engine to assign a ranking to the document with respect to at least one other document when the search engine retrieves the document.