Patents by Inventor Ajay Nair

Ajay Nair 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).

  • Publication number: 20090327268
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing immediate access to comprehensive information and answers on a set of related search engine results pages for common searches executed in the entertainment domain relating to, for instance, music, musicians, movies and celebrities. Upon receipt of a keyword-based search query, a decision is made regarding what the user actually wanted to see as a search result. This information is then automatically presented in a dedicated region of the keyword search results page, typically with links to more refined information. Upon selection of a link, the refined information is also displayed in a dedicated region of the keyword search results page. In this way, the user does not have to navigate multiple, different user interfaces on a variety of different web sites in order to view the information desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: JUSTIN DENNEY, CRISTINA A. COLBY, JAMES T. CLARK, AJAY NAIR, SANAZ AHARI, RICHARD QIAN, SALLY SALAS, MAURICIO LOMELIN, JAMIE BUCKLEY, JOANNA CHAN, NICHOLAS E. CRASWELL, TABREEZ GOVANI, TRUNG T. TRAN
  • Publication number: 20090327256
    Abstract: Compression of extensive, rule-based grammars used to facilitate search queries is provided herein. Rule-based grammars includes a list of rules that each comprise a sequence of token classes. Each token class is a logical grouping of tokens, and each token is a string of characters. A grammar is parsed to identify rules and token classes. Unimportant token classes are identified and sets of unimportant token classes are merged to generated merged token classes. A compressed grammar is generated by substituting the merged token classes into the grammar for corresponding unimportant token classes used to generate the merged token classes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: STELIOS PAPARIZOS, CHRISTOPHER WALTER ANDERSON, WEI LIU, AJAY NAIR, ALEXANDROS NTOULAS, NAGA SRINIVAS VEMURI
  • Publication number: 20090319495
    Abstract: Methods are described for utilizing user-submitted data to provide a response to a query request. User-submitted data are received and referenced upon receiving a query request from an unregistered requester, a potential response is automatically identified from the user-submitted data, the potential response is extracted, and presented in response to the query request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2008
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER W. ANDERSON, EDWARD DAVID HARRIS, RAVI ARINGUNRAM, PAUL MILLER, AJAY NAIR, VISHAL SINGH