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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2021
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Alexander Rusnak, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dragomir Dimitrov Yankov, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Shekoofeh Mokhtari, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kupa Tsheko Muyambo Mutungu, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for suggesting geographic results to a user. The systems, devices, and methods may include receiving a prefix for a geographic query and ranking received candidate results for the prefix of the geographic query. The systems, devices, and methods may provide a query expansion based on a highest ranked candidate result. The systems, devices, and methods may determine a likelihood of the user selecting the query expansion, and if the likelihood exceeds a threshold, provide the query expansion.