Patents by Inventor Andrew Samuel Laucius

Andrew Samuel Laucius 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).

  • Modifying relevance ranking of search result items
    Patent number: 7822742
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for modifying the rank of search result items returned by a search engine are provided. A search engine determines a plurality of search result items that satisfy a user query and the order the search result items are to be presented to a user. A rank modifier determines whether any modification should be made to the rank of each search result item identified by the search engine. The rank of search result items identified as potential spam may be demoted while the rank of search result items identified to be in the language of the search query, having a high click-through rate, or as containing adjacent search terms from the search query may be promoted. The search result items are presented according to modified ranking to the querying user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rangan Majumder, Andrew Samuel Laucius, Javier Tordable, Ramkumar Rajendran
  • MODIFYING RELEVANCE RANKING OF SEARCH RESULT ITEMS
    Publication number: 20090171943
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-readable media for modifying the rank of search result items returned by a search engine are provided. A search engine determines a plurality of search result items that satisfy a user query and the order the search result items are to be presented to a user. A rank modifier determines whether any modification should be made to the rank of each search result item identified by the search engine. The rank of search result items identified as potential spam may be demoted while the rank of search result items identified to be in the language of the search query, having a high click-through rate, or as containing adjacent search terms from the search query may be promoted. The search result items are presented according to modified ranking to the querying user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2008
    Publication date: July 2, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: RANGAN MAJUMDER, ANDREW SAMUEL LAUCIUS, JAVIER TORDABLE, RAMKUMAR RAJENDRAN