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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Marcelo De Barros, Redmond, WA (US);
Prithvishankar Srinivasan, Seattle, WA (US);
Aman Singhal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Manish Mittal, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Mechanisms to personalize quick answers to a user are described. A query history is assembled from queries previously submitted by users. Each entry in the query history comprises a query, an associated quick answer, and the userID associated with the user that submitted the query. A query database is created by submitting the query of each query entry in the query history to a trained machine learning classifier to classify the query with an associated quick answer segment. The quick answer segment is combined with the other information in the query history to create an entry into a query database. When a current query is received from a user, the query database is searched and prior queries with the same quick answer segment from the same user are extracted. A subset of the resultant queries are combined with a subset of queries from other users to personalize the search results.