Patents by Inventor Monika Henzinger

Monika Henzinger has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for improving search quality
    Publication number: 20050149499
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for improving search quality. Search queries are expanded using a variety of linguistic techniques. For example, the words in a query can be supplemented with related words obtained from a database of compound words, inflectional forms, and/or orthographic variations. The expanded queries can be used to perform searches for responsive documents. A document index can be expanded using similar techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2003
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Applicant: Google Inc., A DELAWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alexander Franz, Monika Henzinger
  • Systems and methods for determining document freshness
    Publication number: 20050144193
    Abstract: A system determines a freshness of a first document. The system determines whether a freshness attribute is associated with the first document. The system identifies, based on the determination, a set of second documents that each contain a link to the first document. The system assigns a freshness score to the first document based on a freshness attribute associated with each document of the set of second documents or the freshness attribute associated with the first document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventor: Monika Henzinger
  • Information retrieval based on historical data
    Publication number: 20050071741
    Abstract: A system identifies a document and obtains one or more types of history data associated with the document. The system may generate a score for the document based, at least in part, on the one or more types of history data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Anurag Acharya, Matt Cutts, Jeffrey Dean, Paul Haahr, Monika Henzinger, Urs Hoelzle, Steve Lawrence, Karl Pfleger, Olcan Sercinoglu, Simon Tong