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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2005
Zijian Zheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Frederic Behr, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pyungchul Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);
Steven Fox, Bothell, WA (US);
Zijian Zheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Frederic Behr, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pyungchul Kim, Sammamish, WA (US);
Steven Fox, Bothell, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods for updating an information retrieval system are disclosed. In one embodiment, search terms affiliated with mappings or associations that represent a connection of relevancy between a query and an asset are pushed as content updates to a client system (e.g., as new updates or utilized to replace older data). The search terms are inserted (e.g., inserted as metadata) into corresponding content (the content associated with the asset). In this manner, content-searching data can be updated (e.g., remotely updated) as frequently as desired, even periodically, or selectively as new manually and/or automatically derived data becomes available. In another embodiment, the update data is already built into the content when it is delivered to a client machine. Other disclosed embodiments pertain to methods for generating a data mining classification model that is a blended representation of associations (e.g., query-asset associations) having different characteristics and/or different originating sources.