Patents by Inventor GUARANG P. PRAJAPATI

GUARANG P. PRAJAPATI 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).

  • Search intent preview, disambiguation, and refinement
    Patent number: 10175860
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for non-committal intent preview, disambiguation, and refinement of a search. A search prefix comprising one or more characters associated with an unexecuted search query is received. One or more intent suggestions are suggested to a user. For each of the one or more intent suggestions, one or more entity identifications associated with each of the one or more intent suggestions are received. Metadata corresponding to at least one entity associated with the one or more entity identifications is retrieved from an entity data store. Without retrieving search results for the unexecuted search query, an aggregated intent preview based on the retrieved metadata corresponding to the at least one entity is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Marantz, Aaron Chun Win Yuen, Guarang P. Prajapati, Parthasarathy Govindarajen, Kuansan Wang, Yu-Ting Kuo, Arun Kumar Sacheti, Yin-Cheng Ting
  • SEARCH INTENT PREVIEW, DISAMBIGUATION, AND REFINEMENT
    Publication number: 20140280092
    Abstract: Systems, methods, computer storage media, and user interfaces are provided for non-committal intent preview, disambiguation, and refinement of a search. A search prefix comprising one or more characters associated with an unexecuted search query is received. One or more intent suggestions are suggested to a user. For each of the one or more intent suggestions, one or more entity identifications associated with each of the one or more intent suggestions are received. Metadata corresponding to at least one entity associated with the one or more entity identifications is retrieved from an entity data store. Without retrieving search results for the unexecuted search query, an aggregated intent preview based on the retrieved metadata corresponding to the at least one entity is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: DANIEL MARANTZ, AARON CHUN WIN YUEN, GUARANG P. PRAJAPATI, PARTHASARATHY GOVINDARAJEN, KUANSAN WANG, YU-TING KUO, ARUN KUMAR SACHETI, YIN-CHENG TING