Search Tool Using Multiple Different Search Engine Types Across Different Data Sets

Patent №

US 9,703,893

Granted

2017-07-11

Filed 2015

Owner

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14797893

Various embodiments provide for use of multiple different search engines. The individual search engines are configured to conduct searches in different ways across a search space that includes different types of data sets. In at least some embodiments, the type of search engine that is utilized is selected to due characteristics of the data set(s) that is (are) to be searched. In search spaces that include different types of data sets, combining and mixing different search engines to collectively search the search space can provide a desirably fast and robust user experience.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation0.96
Planning0.94
AI hardware0.94
Machine learning0.03
Speech0.01
Vision0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC

assignment · 360990138

Assignors

MATTHEWS, DAVID A., DE VORCHIK, DAVID G., ZOU, SONG, LERNER, MATTHEW R., ANDERSON, BRET P., SECHREST, STUART

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

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