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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Jianbao Tao, San Jose, CA (US);
Santosh Kumar Kancha, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Keren Kochava Baruch, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony Duane Duerr, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Kunal Mukesh Cholera, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, a fast and space-efficient ranking mechanism is used for vertical searches. A precedence is assigned to a plurality of features based on the relative importance of those features to the provider of a vertical search engine. In an example embodiment, this relative importance may be explicitly indicated by the provider of the vertical search engine. A unique data structure may then be created that incorporates the precedence of each feature.