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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 2012

Filed:

Mar. 20, 2006
Applicants:

LI LI, Issaquah, WA (US);

Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);

Ying LI, Bellevue, WA (US);

Zheng Chen, Beijing, CN;

Hua-jun Zeng, Beijing, CN;

KE Tang, Beijing, CN;

Zhifeng Yang, Beijing, CN;

Fengping Zeng, Beijing, CN;

Xianfang Wang, Beijing, CN;

Xiaofeng Dai, Redmond, WA (US);

Benyu Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Jian Wang, Beijing, CN;

Inventors:

Li Li, Issaquah, WA (US);

Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);

Ying Li, Bellevue, WA (US);

Zheng Chen, Beijing, CN;

Hua-Jun Zeng, Beijing, CN;

Ke Tang, Beijing, CN;

Zhifeng Yang, Beijing, CN;

FengPing Zeng, Beijing, CN;

Xianfang Wang, Beijing, CN;

Xiaofeng Dai, Redmond, WA (US);

Benyu Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Jian Wang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06Q 30/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system and method are disclosed for providing documents related to a search request. The search request may include a search query of one or more keywords, or the search request may be a demographic search query including one or more demographic attributes. An index containing data crawled from publisher's websites, demographic information of registered users, along with the search history of the registered users can be created. Once a search request is received, the search request can be compared to the information stored in the index, and one or more documents related to the request can be provided.


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