Patent №
US 9,619,554
Granted
2017-04-11
Filed 2011
Owner
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
3
nlp · kr · planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
13288593
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions configured to be searched against vertical information domains in response to receiving a general web search query are provided. At least a portion of a general web search query is received. As the portion of the general web search query is received, query-completion suggestions are determined as is a likely primary intent associated with at least a portion of the determined query-completion suggestions. If the likely primary intent associated with a particular query-completion suggestion is for information associated with a particular vertical information domain other than the general web domain, the query-completion suggestion is provided such that selection thereof causes searching of the query-completion suggestion against the particular information domain for search results.
AI classification
Ownership
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
assignment · 275000080
Assignors
LIU, XIN, AGRAWAL, NITIN, GILSINAN, JAMES FRANCIS, IV, LAWSON, JAMES B., MACDONALD, BRIAN, O'DONOVAN, MAIREAD AINE, VLCEK, KIMBERLY M., MALHOTRA, NIPOON
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