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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Rahim Daya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abhishek Gupta, San Francisco, CA (US);
Shakti Dhirendraji Sinha, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xianren Wu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Satya Pradeep Kanduri, Mountain View, CA (US);
Zian Yu, San Jose, CA (US);
Shan Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Jordan Anthony Saints, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Timothy Patrick Jordt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Gregory Alan Walloch, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Zachary Tyler Piepmeyer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
System and techniques for facet expansion are described herein. A user interface element may be presented on facet selection portion of a search result display including search results. Here, the user interface element is arranged to accept user input of a facet. Partial user input for a facet may be received. A peer entity to an entity corresponding to the facet may be obtained. A peer facet may be presented in a suggestion element in the facet selection portion in response to receiving the partial user input.