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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2011
Roger Barga, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexander Sasha Stojanovic, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Carl Carter-schwendler, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Isard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Savas Parastatidis, Seattle, WA (US);
Roger Barga, Bellevue, WA (US);
Alexander Sasha Stojanovic, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Carl Carter-Schwendler, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Isard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Savas Parastatidis, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for defocusing queries over big datasets and dynamic datasets are provided to broaden search results and incorporate all potentially relevant data and avoid overly narrowing queries. An analytic component can receive queries directed at one region of a dataset and analyze the queries to generate inferences about the queries. The queries can then be defocused by a defocusing component and incorporate a larger dataset than originally searched to broaden the queries. The larger dataset can incorporate all, or a part of the original dataset and can also be disparate from the original dataset. Clusters of queries can also be merged and unified to deal with 'local minima' issues and broaden the understanding of the dataset. In other embodiments, dynamic data can be monitored and changes tracked, to ensure that all portions of the dataset are being searched by the queries.