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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Dan Liu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Daniel Sairom Krishnan Hewlett, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Qi Guo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wei Lu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Xuhong Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Wensheng Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mingzhou Zhou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anthony Hsu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Keqiu Hu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yi Wu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chenya Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Baolei Li, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In an example embodiment, a platform is provided that utilizes information available to a computer system to feed a neural network. The neural network is trained to determine both the probability that a searcher would select a given potential search result if it was presented to him or her and the probability that a subject of the potential search result would respond to a communication from the searcher. These probabilities are essentially combined to produce a single score that can be used to determine whether to present the searcher with the potential search result and, if so, how high to rank the potential search result among other search results. In a further example embodiment, embeddings used for the input features are modified during training to maximize an objective.