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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2011
Applicants:
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Bellevue, WA (US);
Qiang Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jie Liu, Medina, WA (US);
LI Jiang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventors:
Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Bellevue, WA (US);
Qiang Wu, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jie Liu, Medina, WA (US);
Li Jiang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30867 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method includes receiving a search query from a user at a search engine. The method also includes performing a search responsive to the search query to obtain a set of results. The set of results is ordered at least partially based on a distance between a profile of a user and a profile of each result in the ordered set of results. At least one profile of a result is based on an aggregate of a plurality of user profiles.