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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
May. 22, 2009
Sanaz Ahari, Kirkland, WA (US);
Xiaoxin Yin, Bothell, WA (US);
Farid Hosseini, Redmond, WA (US);
Sarthak Shah, Kirkland, WA (US);
Adam Troy, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel C. Fain, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian Macdonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nikhil Dandekar, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Cameron, Redmond, WA (US);
Sanaz Ahari, Kirkland, WA (US);
Xiaoxin Yin, Bothell, WA (US);
Farid Hosseini, Redmond, WA (US);
Sarthak Shah, Kirkland, WA (US);
Adam Troy, Redmond, WA (US);
Daniel C. Fain, Redmond, WA (US);
Brian MacDonald, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nikhil Dandekar, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Cameron, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Computer-readable media and computerized methods for automatically organizing search results according to task groups are provided. The methods involve aggregating a gallery of entities (e.g., search queries that share a common categorization) into a query class and assigning a dictionary (e.g., list of terms that are drawn from various sources) to the query class. The task groups are identified from the list of terms within the dictionary. The process of identification includes analyzing patterns of user search behavior to select terms from the list of terms, which reflect popular user search intents, and ranking the selected terms based on predetermined parameters to produce an ordering. Based on the ordering, a set of the selected terms that are highest ranked are declared the task groups. The task groups are employed to arrange the search results on a UI display and to provide a consistent and intuitive format for refining a search.