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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 12, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Sasi Kumar Parthasarathy, Seattle, WA (US);
Junaid Ahmed, Bellevue, WA (US);
Yatharth Saraf, Bellevue, WA (US);
Walter Sun, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and media are provided for delivering clustered search results for recent and non-recent events by maintaining the identification (ID) numbers of the respective clustered documents beyond the 'fresh' life span of the clustered documents. When clusters are formed according to similar content, an ID number and associated attributes are assigned to each of the clusters. This provides a mechanism to track and retrieve the respective clusters for subsequent delivery of search results. The respective ID numbers of the clusters are maintained, even after the documents are no longer considered 'fresh.' These similar-content clusters are further subdivided according to publication date. This provides individual subdivided clusters for similar content events that occurred at different time spans, which are delivered along with individual non-clustered search results in a SERP.