Patents by Inventor Simon D. Bernstein

Simon D. Bernstein 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).

  • Patent number: 8938653
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which the accuracy of context-based information provided by at least one data source for received context data is increased. Correctness information received in association with usage of looked up context-based information is logged. The correctness information may be processed to increase the overall accuracy by correcting a data source, and/or by creating a blended data source that includes the most likely accurate portions (segments) from among multiple data sources as determined via the correctness information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Suzue, Johnson T. Apacible, Mark J. EncarnaciĆ³n, Jamie Huynh, Simon D. Bernstein
  • Publication number: 20130159804
    Abstract: The subject disclosure is directed towards a technology by which the accuracy of context-based information provided by at least one data source for received context data is increased. Correctness information received in association with usage of looked up context-based information is logged. The correctness information may be processed to increase the overall accuracy by correcting a data source, and/or by creating a blended data source that includes the most likely accurate portions (segments) from among multiple data sources as determined via the correctness information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yutaka Suzue, Johnson T. Apacible, Mark J. EncarnaciĆ³n, Jamie Huynh, Simon D. Bernstein
  • Patent number: 7302425
    Abstract: Query results are pre-cached for a substantial portion of or all queries that are likely to be issued by users. One query can be entirely different from another query, yet because corresponding query results are pre-cached, the database need not be accessed, improving response performance. Pre-cached queries are also distributed into multiple partitions to apportion work among multiple computing machines to further enhance performance and provide redundancy in case of the failure of any particular partition. Pre-cached query results are selectively refreshed so that users may enjoy up-to-date information by focusing on queries that are popular as well as queries that are old.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Simon D. Bernstein, Xiongjian Fu, Nishant Dani