SERVER SIDE SEARCH WITH MULTI-WORD WORD WHEELING AND WILDCARD EXPANSION

Patent №

US 7,769,804

Granted

2010-08-03

Filed 2006

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

5

ml · nlp · speech · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11333486

The claimed subject matter provides systems and/or methods that expand input data. An interface can obtain input data and a wildcard insertion component can modify the input data to include at least one implicit wildcard inserted at an end of each intended word. Additionally, an expansion component can generate a candidate list of expanded data based at least in part on the input data including the at least one implicit wildcard utilizing a language model that provides likely expansions of wildcards. Further, the expansion component can evaluate the input data at a server side.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Speech1.00
Machine learning0.99
Knowledge representation0.83
AI hardware0.83
Vision0.01
Planning0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 170840707

Assignors

CHURCH, KENNETH W., SHARPE, TIMOTHY, THIESSON, BO

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

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