RELATED URLS FOR TASK-ORIENTED QUERY RESULTS

Patent №

US 9,569,540

Granted

2017-02-14

Filed 2016

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15046625

Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
AI hardware0.85
Knowledge representation0.78
Machine learning0.74
Evolutionary computation0.01
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 379040846

Assignors

AGRAWAL, NITIN, GOVANNI, TABREEZ, BUCKLEY, JAMIE P., CAMERON, MICHAEL MAXWELL, CHEN, LIWEI, WILLIAMS, HUGH EVAN, AHARI, SANAZ, ZHANG, YANG YANG, AALETI, SRINATH REDDY

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