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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2011
Applicants:
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rakesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Samuel Ieong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Cupertino, CA (US);
Rakesh Agrawal, San Jose, CA (US);
Samuel Ieong, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, and systems directed to receiving search queries, retrieving documents, computing the number of categories to present for a given query, computing the number of results to show in each category, computing an ordering of categories, and for all the result pages beyond the first page employing user interface elements that optionally allow the user to quickly zoom in on a specific category and get more results belonging to that category.