Patent №
US 7,149,732
Granted
2006-12-12
Filed 2001
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
4
ml · nlp · kr · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09977171
The described subject matter provides systems and procedures to make query similarity determinations, wherein the queries are used in information retrieval operations. A same document and/or multiple similar documents are identified that have been selected by a user in response to multiple queries. Responsive to identifying the same document and/or the similar documents, a query cluster is generated that indicates that the queries used to obtain the same and/or similar documents. This is accomplished in a manner that is independent of whether individual ones of the queries are compositionally similar with respect to other ones of the queries.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 122680341
Assignors
WEN, JI-RONG, NIE, JIAN YUN, LI, MINGJING, ZHANG, HONG-JIANG
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.