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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Hari Shankar Sreekumar Menon, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Shubham Gupta, San Mateo, CA (US);
Suruchi H. Shah, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ali Sadiq Mohamed, San Jose, CA (US);
Parinkumar D. Shah, Milpitas, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system stores a conversation containing a series of messages exchanged among a number of participants in a first document containing metadata for the conversation; a second document containing message content for the series of messages, wherein the message content includes a fixed position gap between starting or ending positions in consecutive messages in the series of messages; and one or more additional documents storing message metadata for individual messages in the conversation. Next, the system processes a first search across the series of messages in the conversation using an index of the set of documents. The system also processes, using the index, a second search within individual messages in the series of messages as a span query with a distance that is shorter than the fixed position gap.