Patents by Inventor Helen Jean Cuncannan

Helen Jean Cuncannan 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).

  • Patent number: 7693901
    Abstract: A vertical search engine may rank items based on both the quality of data associated with each item and the popularity of each item. The vertical search engine may access data associated with items from a variety of different sources, including feed sources and crawl sources. Data quality inputs are determined for each item based on the quality of the data associated with each respective item. In addition, popularity inputs are determined for each item based on user interest in each respective item. A global rankings score is then calculated for each item based on the data quality inputs and popularity inputs for each respective item. The global ranking score may be used to order search results for search queries in such a way that items from feed data and items from crawl data may be displayed in a unified manner, rather than being segregated by data source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chong I. Ka, Helen Jean Cuncannan, Kong-Kat Wong, Mackenzie Steele, Michael P. Gordon, Shailesh Prakash, Thomas F. Bergstraesser