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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 08, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2011
Charles E. Cummins, Seattle, WA (US);
Justin Hamilton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yue MA, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hua Ding, Beijing, CN;
Xiaowei Sheng, Beijing, CN;
Bing Lang, Beijing, CN;
Kun Wu, Beijing, CN;
Charles E. Cummins, Seattle, WA (US);
Justin Hamilton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yue Ma, Bellevue, WA (US);
Hua Ding, Beijing, CN;
Xiaowei Sheng, Beijing, CN;
Bing Lang, Beijing, CN;
Kun Wu, Beijing, CN;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Accurate search results are provided while still honoring content limitations. Content responsive to search, whose presentation is prevented by content limitations is presented in an obscured manner, notifying the user of the existence of the content, while not enabling discerning of details, thereby honoring the content limitations. Attempted user interaction with obscured content acts as an entry point to changing the content limitations, including presenting user notifications of the content limitations and presenting an option to change the content limitations to allow for the unobscured presentation of the obscured content. Graphical content can be obscured by applying graphical modifications to generate new, obscured content that provides only a vague resemblance to the original, including jittering pixels, or other subcomponents, the applying of Gaussian blurs, and pixelization.