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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:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2011
Timothy Edgar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ambarish Chitnis, Redmond, WA (US);
Ryen William White, Woodinville, WA (US);
Pavel Dmitriev, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rajanikanth Ageeru, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ovidiu Dan, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Lin Tang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Timothy Edgar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ambarish Chitnis, Redmond, WA (US);
Ryen William White, Woodinville, WA (US);
Pavel Dmitriev, Bellevue, WA (US);
Rajanikanth Ageeru, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ovidiu Dan, Bethlehem, PA (US);
Lin Tang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiment described herein are generally directed to a toolbar extension of a web browser that grabs a user's search engine query and suggests a refined search query known to yield better search results. The toolbar recognizes the web page the user is on as being associated with a search engine and retrieves the user's search query. The toolbar interacts with a refinement component on a server, and the refinement component determines a refined search query based on confidence scores assigned to data mined from a data center affiliated with different search engine (one related to the toolbar). The refined search query is returned and displayed in a search field of the toolbar, allowing the user to easily run the refined search on the different search engine.