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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 12, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2011
Sanaz Ahari, Bellevue, WA (US);
Timothy C. Hoad, Redmond, WA (US);
Deepak Vijaywargi, Seattle, WA (US);
Yatharth Saraf, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sanaz Ahari, Bellevue, WA (US);
Timothy C. Hoad, Redmond, WA (US);
Deepak Vijaywargi, Seattle, WA (US);
Yatharth Saraf, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are described herein for processing social search results. Such social search results may be included in a relatively higher-ranked (e.g., a highest-ranked) subset of a user's search results and/or selected from a relatively lower-ranked subset of the user's search results in response to a determination that the relatively higher-ranked subset includes social search result(s). In one example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be annotated to include publicly available rich metadata. Such metadata may be extracted from user profiles on social networking domains from which the social search results are received. In another example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be clustered such that they are consecutively ranked. In yet another example, the social search results (or a subset thereof) may be configured to be displayed in a designated arrangement (e.g., in a grid having multiple columns).