Patents by Inventor Harold C. Daume, III

Harold C. Daume, III 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).

  • User intent discovery
    Patent number: 7158966
    Abstract: a system 100 that facilitates determining a user's intent given a user search query comprises a search engine that is employed to search over a collection of objects within a data store to retrieve a user search result set. The objects within the result set are associated with queries that were previously utilized to locate such objects. A level of relatedness between the previous queries and the user search query is determined, and previous queries that are associated with a result set that is novel and related to the user search result set are returned to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Eric D. Brill, Harold C. Daume, III