GENERATING A LABELED HIERARCHY OF MUTUALLY DISJOINT CATEGORIES FROM A SET OF QUERY RESULTS

Patent №

US 7,567,962

Granted

2009-07-28

Filed 2004

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10917791

At least one implementation of database management technology, described herein, utilizes categorization of query results when querying a relational database in order to reduce information overload. To reduce information overload even further, another implementation, described herein, utilizes both categorization and ranking of query results when searching a relational database.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.99
Knowledge representation0.81
Machine learning0.77
Evolutionary computation0.01
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 156920159

Assignors

CHAKRABARTI, KAUSHIK, HWANG, SEUNG-WON, CHAUDHURI, SURAJIT

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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