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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2008
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2004
Bama Ramarathnam, Sammamish, WA (US);
Gregory N. Hullender, Bellevue, WA (US);
Darren A. Shakib, North Bend, WA (US);
Nicole A. Hamilton, Redmond, WA (US);
Bama Ramarathnam, Sammamish, WA (US);
Gregory N. Hullender, Bellevue, WA (US);
Darren A. Shakib, North Bend, WA (US);
Nicole A. Hamilton, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for dispersing search engine results by category. A search engine application queries a searchable index of document data associated with a plurality of electronic documents in response to a search request to identify one or more electronic documents having document data matching data included in the search request. The search engine application disperses identified electronic documents according to category data included in the document data for display to a user.