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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2014
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Kanstantsyn Zoryn, Redmond, WA (US);
Zhimin Chen, Redmond, WA (US);
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Redmond, WA (US);
James P. Finnigan, Redmond, WA (US);
Vivek R. Narasayya, Redmond, WA (US);
Surajit Chaudhuri, Redmond, WA (US);
Kris Ganjam, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for annotating structured data for search. Aspects of the invention include associating structured data, such as, for example, tables, with additional content to improve indexing of the structured data for search and/or provide improved search results for structured data. Web pages can include tables as well as other content. The other content in a web page, such as, for example, content outside the <table> and </table> tags of a web table, can be useful in supporting searches for web tables. Content in one web page can also be useful in supporting searches for a table in another web page.