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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Vinayak Shukl, New Delhi, IN;
Nagaraj Kota, Bangalore, IN;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, a computer system detects user-entered text that has been entered in a search field of a search engine via a user interface of a computing device of a user, determines a context representation for the user-entered text based on one or more search queries submitted by the user within a particular amount of time before the user-entered text was entered, generates a corresponding score for each one of a plurality of auto-completion candidates based on the auto-completion candidate and the context representation, and causes at least a portion of the plurality of auto-completion candidates to be displayed in an auto-complete user interface element of the search field based on the corresponding scores of the at least a portion of the plurality of auto-completion candidates prior to the user-entered text being submitted by the user as part of a search query.