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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:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2011
Applicants:
Jianyong Xiao, Issaquah, WA (US);
Yi LI, Redmond, WA (US);
Yanbiao Zhao, Redmond, WA (US);
Xun Kang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pin LU, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ashish Consul, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Jianyong Xiao, Issaquah, WA (US);
Yi Li, Redmond, WA (US);
Yanbiao Zhao, Redmond, WA (US);
Xun Kang, Kirkland, WA (US);
Pin Lu, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ashish Consul, Redmond, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G07F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30312 (2013.01); G06F 17/30533 (2013.01);
Abstract
Multiple search indexes can be served from a common set of resources. Instead of requiring a processor to be dedicated to serving a single search index, a processor can provide responsive documents for search queries that are based on different ranking algorithms and/or different sets of documents.