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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:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2011
Daniel Jason Tomko, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vikas Rajvanshy, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Michael Gradek, White Plains, NY (US);
John Lynn, San Francisco, CA (US);
William J. Pardi, Edgewood, WA (US);
Daniel Jason Tomko, Bellevue, WA (US);
Vikas Rajvanshy, Clyde Hill, WA (US);
Michael Gradek, White Plains, NY (US);
John Lynn, San Francisco, CA (US);
William J. Pardi, Edgewood, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing topical search suggestions are provided. Topical search suggestions allow a user to receive search results related to the designated topic or subject matter. The present invention may generate multiple topics based on search input provided by a user. The search input may be a search prefix that includes one or more words entered into the search query box before the completed search query is submitted to the search engine. A search interface then presents the topics derived from the search prefix to a user before the user submits the query. In another embodiment, the user designates multiple search inputs. The present invention generates search results based on the search inputs and then presents topics extracted from the search results. In one embodiment, the topics are extracted by performing a natural language analysis of search result metadata.