Patents by Inventor Joanna Chan

Joanna Chan 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).

  • Publication number: 20110191321
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention disclose an advertisement or segment of a webpage that displays suggested search queries as selectable links. Suggested queries may be based on content associated with the webpage, or the description of the webpage (such as a URL), or default suggestions. In one example, content of a page is crawled for terms that are mapped to suggested queries. Queries may be represented as textual links or multimedia images embedded in pages accessed over a network, and selection of a query may direct or enhance search engine traffic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: KRISHNA GADE, ANDREY YEGOROV, JOANNA CHAN, DANIEL C. FAIN, SANAZ AHARI, NITIN AGRAWAL
  • Patent number: 7984004
    Abstract: Described herein is a system that facilitates assigning indications of usefulness to query suggestions. The system includes a query suggestion generator component that receives a query and generates a query suggestion based at least in part upon the received query. A model component outputs an indication of usefulness with respect to the query suggestion, wherein the model component is a machine-learned model of user behavior with respect to query suggestions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Inventors: Galen Andrew, Sooho Park, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Silviu-Petru Cucerzan, Jamie Paul Buckley, Joanna Chan
  • Publication number: 20090327268
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing immediate access to comprehensive information and answers on a set of related search engine results pages for common searches executed in the entertainment domain relating to, for instance, music, musicians, movies and celebrities. Upon receipt of a keyword-based search query, a decision is made regarding what the user actually wanted to see as a search result. This information is then automatically presented in a dedicated region of the keyword search results page, typically with links to more refined information. Upon selection of a link, the refined information is also displayed in a dedicated region of the keyword search results page. In this way, the user does not have to navigate multiple, different user interfaces on a variety of different web sites in order to view the information desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: JUSTIN DENNEY, CRISTINA A. COLBY, JAMES T. CLARK, AJAY NAIR, SANAZ AHARI, RICHARD QIAN, SALLY SALAS, MAURICIO LOMELIN, JAMIE BUCKLEY, JOANNA CHAN, NICHOLAS E. CRASWELL, TABREEZ GOVANI, TRUNG T. TRAN
  • Publication number: 20090187515
    Abstract: Described herein is a system that facilitates assigning indications of usefulness to query suggestions. The system includes a query suggestion generator component that receives a query and generates a query suggestion based at least in part upon the received query. A model component outputs an indication of usefulness with respect to the query suggestion, wherein the model component is a machine-learned model of user behavior with respect to query suggestions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Galen Andrew, Sooho Park, Robert L. Rounthwaite, Silviu-Petru Cucerzan, Jamie Paul Buckley, Joanna Chan