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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 08, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ge Wang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Samuel J. Shelton, Kirkland, WA (US);
Bhavanesh Rengarajan, Sammamish, WA (US);
Nicholas James Robinson, Redmond, WA (US);
Sundar Kameswaran, Redmond, WA (US);
Venkata Rao Saladi, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC., Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method for performing a document search action includes receiving a search request identifying a sample document. A plurality of terms occurring within the sample document is identified. Each term is scored based on a global term frequency of that term within a collection of documents. Each term is then weight based on proximity, within the sample document, of that term to at least one of the other terms of the first plurality of terms. A document search query is created to include a proximity-limiting clause restricting results to include documents that have a highest-weighted term of the first plurality of terms within a threshold distance of another term of the first plurality of terms. The document search query is performed, thereby resulting in identification of a first resulting document.