Patents by Inventor Brian P. Robbins

Brian P. Robbins 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).

  • Indexing of partitioned external data sources
    Patent number: 8224804
    Abstract: A computing system hosts a plurality of websites, a plurality of external data sources, and a search service. External resources in each of the external data sources are partitioned among a plurality of external partitions. The search service automatically generates an index comprising index entries. The index entries are partitioned among a plurality of index partitions, each associated with one or more of the websites. For each given index partition, the index entries in the given index partition map terms to resources in the given set of resources that contain the terms. The given set of resources includes web pages in a given set of websites associated with the given index partition and external resources in external partitions used by the given set of websites. The search service uses the index entries in given index partition to identify resources in the given set of resources containing query terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Umesh Unnikrishnan, Jason M. Cahill, Titus C. Miron, Zachary Rosenfield, William D. Taylor, Brian P. Robbins
  • Indexing of Partitioned External Data Sources
    Publication number: 20110022582
    Abstract: A computing system hosts a plurality of websites, a plurality of external data sources, and a search service. External resources in each of the external data sources are partitioned among a plurality of external partitions. The search service automatically generates an index comprising index entries. The index entries are partitioned among a plurality of index partitions, each associated with one or more of the websites. For each given index partition, the index entries in the given index partition map terms to resources in the given set of resources that contain the terms. The given set of resources includes web pages in a given set of websites associated with the given index partition and external resources in external partitions used by the given set of websites. The search service uses the index entries in given index partition to identify resources in the given set of resources containing query terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2009
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Umesh Unnikrishnan, Jason M. Cahill, Titus C. Miron, Zachary Rosenfield, William D. Taylor, Brian P. Robbins