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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2017
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Raghavan Muthuregunathan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abhimanyu Lad, San Mateo, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In various example embodiments, a system and method for modifying user input are presented. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving electronic input from a member of a social networking service, the input comprising a named entity; transmitting a query to a database of entities connected to the social networking service to select a set of entities in the database whose names are within a character edit distance of a spelling of the named entity; identifying a matching entity that is connected to the member at the social networking service and matches an entity in the set of entities; and modifying the input by replacing the spelling of the named entity with a spelling of the matching entity.