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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2011
Sandy Wong, Seattle, WA (US);
Wei Mu, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jun Yin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rahul Nair, Daly City, CA (US);
Simon King, Berkeley, CA (US);
Srinivasan Badrinarayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Xavier Legros, Woodside, CA (US);
Michael Ching, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Haas, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Shubha Nabar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sandy Wong, Seattle, WA (US);
Wei Mu, Kirkland, WA (US);
Jun Yin, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rahul Nair, Daly City, CA (US);
Simon King, Berkeley, CA (US);
Srinivasan Badrinarayanan, Redmond, WA (US);
Xavier Legros, Woodside, CA (US);
Michael Ching, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Haas, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Shubha Nabar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Search results may include both objective results and person results. In one example, a search query is evaluated to determine whether it is the type of query that a user might want to ask to a friend. If the query is of such a type, then the search engine may examine a social graph to determine which friends of the user who entered the query may have information that is relevant to answering the query. If such friends exist, then the friends may be displayed along with objective search results, along with an explanation of each friend's relevance to the query. Clicking on a person in the results may cause a conversation to be initiated with that person, thereby allowing the user who entered the query to ask his or her friend about the subject of the query.