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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2011
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Xuedong David Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Heung-yeung Shum, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
James H. Lewallen, Fall City, WA (US);
Todd D. Newman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David S. Taniguchi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Lili Cheng, Bellevue, WA (US);
Xuedong David Huang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Heung-Yeung Shum, Bellevue, WA (US);
Eric J. Horvitz, Kirkland, WA (US);
James H. Lewallen, Fall City, WA (US);
Todd D. Newman, Mercer Island, WA (US);
David S. Taniguchi, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A unified search service may collect information related to an enterprise from at least one of publicly available data and private enterprise data. In some implementations, crowd sourcing may be used to determine a source list of one or more sources of information. Authored content can be generated, such as by combining one or more items of information from the public data with one or more items of information from the private enterprise data. Further, in some implementations, a public index may be generated from the public data, and one or more affiliation indexes may be generated from the private enterprise data. For example, a first affiliation index may contain confidential enterprise information, while a second affiliation index may contain non-confidential enterprise information. A user's affiliation to the enterprise may be taken into consideration when determining which indexes to use when responding to a search request from the user.