Patents by Inventor Ashwini K. Varma

Ashwini K. Varma 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).

  • Real-time personalized recommendation of location-related entities
    Patent number: 9152726
    Abstract: A location-related entity ranking technique is described that allows a user see the ranking of location-related entities near a desired location in response to a query. The technique can leverage the searches performed by a community of mobile device users at a given location and at a given time to infer the location-related entities that are popular at this specific location and time window. The technique can also filter out or re-rank these location-related entities based on the personal preferences of the person that submits the query and group preferences of a group to which the user belongs. The personal preferences can also be context specific (i.e. different restaurant preferences for lunch and dinner times).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dimitrios Lymperopoulos, Jie Liu, Melissa Wood Dunn, Ashwini K. Varma, Fang Wang, Jen-Hsien Kenny Chien
  • REAL-TIME PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION OF LOCATION-RELATED ENTITIES
    Publication number: 20120143859
    Abstract: A location-related entity ranking technique is described that allows a user see the ranking of location-related entities near a desired location in response to a query. The technique can leverage the searches performed by a community of mobile device users at a given location and at a given time to infer the location-related entities that are popular at this specific location and time window. The technique can also filter out or re-rank these location-related entities based on the personal preferences of the person that submits the query and group preferences of a group to which the user belongs. The personal preferences can also be context specific (i.e. different restaurant preferences for lunch and dinner times).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dimitrios Lymperopoulos, Jie Liu, Melissa Wood Dunn, Ashwini K. Varma, Fang Wang, Jen-Hsien Kenny Chien