QUERY-ORIENTED MESSAGE CHARACTERIZATION

Patent №

US 8,898,144

Granted

2014-11-25

Filed 2013

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

13922725

Processing messages. Messages are processed based on a characteristic derived from information in messages, metadata about messages, or other information external to messages. Values for one or more pieces of information are received. At least one of the values for one or more pieces of information is associated with a first message. Queries are received. The queries specify one or more of the pieces of information. At least a portion of the plurality of values for the one or more pieces of information is processed in conjunction with the one or more queries to create one or more normalized characteristics for the first message. The one or more normalized characteristics for the first message are in a same format irrespective of the format of the pieces of information. The first message, and/or other messages, is processed based on at least one of the one or more normalized characteristics.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.92
Machine learning0.83
Knowledge representation0.79
Evolutionary computation0.15
Vision0.01
Planning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 306530705

Assignors

ALLEN, NICHOLAS A., BATRES, STEFAN R., BROWN, JUSTIN D., KATTI, JAYTEERTH N., MAINE, STEPHEN, PINTO, EDMUND S.V., WOLF, KENNETH D.

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