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Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 05, 2010
Applicants:

Viswanath Vadlamani, Redmond, WA (US);

Munirathnam Srikanth, Redmond, WA (US);

Phani Vaddadi, Issaquah, WA (US);

Abhinai Srivastava, Seattle, WA (US);

Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);

Rajeev Prasad, Bothell, WA (US);

Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);

Inventors:

Viswanath Vadlamani, Redmond, WA (US);

Munirathnam Srikanth, Redmond, WA (US);

Phani Vaddadi, Issaquah, WA (US);

Abhinai Srivastava, Seattle, WA (US);

Tarek Najm, Kirkland, WA (US);

Rajeev Prasad, Bothell, WA (US);

Arungunram Chandrasekaran Surendran, Sammamish, WA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30672 (2013.01); G06F 17/30867 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for generating lateral concepts are provided. The system includes a search engine to receive user queries, a storage to store content and its associated categories, and a lateral concept generator. The lateral concept generator is connected to both the search engine and storage. The lateral concept generator selects lateral concepts from categories associated with the content based on similarity scores for the stored content.


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