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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
James Dai, Redmond, WA (US);
Julia H. Farago, Seattle, WA (US);
Natala J. Menezes, Seattle, WA (US);
Ramez Naam, Seattle, WA (US);
Saleel Sathe, Redmond, WA (US);
Hugh E. Williams, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and media are provided for managing feedback data that will be used for ranking search results. A plurality of user feedback data from more than one user can be aggregated into a search index. The user feedback data can be associated with one or more documents within the index such that the one or more documents can be ranked based on the type of feedback data that is aggregated. Once the documents have been ranked, the ranked documents can be provided to a requester.