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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:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2010
David Ahn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Paul Bieniosek, Woodinville, WA (US);
Andrei Peter Makhanov, San Jose, CA (US);
Franco Salvetti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
David Ahn, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Paul Bieniosek, Woodinville, WA (US);
Andrei Peter Makhanov, San Jose, CA (US);
Franco Salvetti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Giovanni Lorenzo Thione, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Concept disambiguation is provided for search queries by analyzing search results in conjunction with an ontology of concepts. An ontology of concepts is identified, and at least one document is associated with each concept. The document associated with a concept is representative of the concept and used to generate a concept signature. When a search query is received, it is processed to obtain search results. The search results are used to generate a search results signature, which is compared to the concept signatures to identify one or more concepts that are relevant to the search query.