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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 27, 2011
Severan Sylvain Jean-michel Rault, Redmond, WA (US);
Samir Lakhani, Seattle, WA (US);
Lawrence Brian Ripsher, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph Ollis, Kirkland, WA (US);
Severan Sylvain Jean-Michel Rault, Redmond, WA (US);
Samir Lakhani, Seattle, WA (US);
Lawrence Brian Ripsher, Seattle, WA (US);
Joseph Ollis, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Search results responsive to a query are generated by a search engine. If the query is 'location relevant', the results are provided to a ranker component. If the query is an entity search, then entities matching the query are ranked by distance from the user. If the query is not, and if it is not semantically charged, the entities are ranked either according to distance from the user or by search relevance. If the query is semantically charged, a semantic score is calculated for each entity. One or more threshold semantic scores are determined that divide the search results into multiple parts. The results within each part can then be ranked independently. The results within a first part are ranked according to their distance from the user, while the results in a subsequent part are ranked according to their semantical relationship to the query. The re-ranked parts are concatenated together.