Patents by Inventor Justin Sarma

Justin Sarma 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).

  • Method and system for determining confidence in answer for search
    Patent number: 9239879
    Abstract: In a method for a direct answer for search, a search query is received over a network, one or more answer candidate snippets for the search query are received, with an answer candidate snippet having at least a portion of content available over the network for an answer candidate, one or more answer entities are determined within a selected answer candidate snippet, a frequency of the one or more answer entities found within the one or more answer candidate snippets for the search query is determined, a confidence score is adjusted for the selected answer candidate in accordance with the frequency of the one or more answer entities found within the one or more answer candidate snippets, and at least one answer candidate snippet is sent for a response to the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: IAC Search & Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Yufei Pan, Hui Li, Justin Sarma, David Soukal, Alessio Signorini, Apostolos Gerasoulis, Tomasz Imielinski
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING CONFIDENCE IN ANSWER FOR SEARCH
    Publication number: 20100332499
    Abstract: In a method for a direct answer for search, a search query is received over a network, one or more answer candidate snippets for the search query are received, with an answer candidate snippet having at least a portion of content available over the network for an answer candidate, one or more answer entities are determined within a selected answer candidate snippet, a frequency of the one or more answer entities found within the one or more answer candidate snippets for the search query is determined, a confidence score is adjusted for the selected answer candidate in accordance with the frequency of the one or more answer entities found within the one or more answer candidate snippets, and at least one answer candidate snippet is sent for a response to the search query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: IAC SEARCH & MEDIA, INC.
    Inventors: Yufei Pan, Hui Li, Justin Sarma, David Soukal, Alessio Signorini, Apostolos Gerasoulis, Tomasz Imielinski