Patents by Inventor Kyle Peltonen

Kyle Peltonen 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: 8458349
    Abstract: The subject disclosure pertains to anonymous network interaction. More specifically, mechanisms are provided to ensure anonymity with respect network interaction such that third parties are unable to determine the source and/or intent of communications. Accordingly, entities may anonymize all outgoing and/or incoming data packets so as to mitigate outside entities from learning about information being sought and/or provided. For example, a user or corporation may employ an anonymizer with respect to web searching so that outside entities are not able to determine what information is attempted to be accessed and by whom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bradly A. Brunell, Susan T. Dumais, Joshua T. Goodman, Eric J. Horvitz, Gary Flake, Anoop Gupta, Christopher A. Meek, Ramez Naam, Kyle Peltonen
  • Publication number: 20120041960
    Abstract: Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises application code for performing methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Inventors: Dmitriy Meyerzon, Hugo Zaragoza, Kyle Peltonen, Andrew DeBruyne
  • Publication number: 20110238829
    Abstract: The subject disclosure pertains to anonymous network interaction. More specifically, mechanisms are provided to ensure anonymity with respect network interaction such that third parties are unable to determine the source and/or intent of communications. Accordingly, entities may anonymize all outgoing and/or incoming data packets so as to mitigate outside entities from learning about information being sought and/or provided. For example, a user or corporation may employ an anonymizer with respect to web searching so that outside entities are not able to determine what information is attempted to be accessed and by whom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2011
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradly A. Brunell, Susan T. Dumais, Joshua T. Goodman, Eric J. Horvitz, Gary Flake, Anoop Gupta, Christopher A. Meek, Ramez Naam, Kyle Peltonen
  • Patent number: 7984169
    Abstract: The subject disclosure pertains to anonymous network interaction. More specifically, mechanisms are provided to ensure anonymity with respect network interaction such that third parties are unable to determine the source and/or intent of communications. Accordingly, entities can anonymize all outgoing and/or incoming data packets so as to mitigate outside entities from learning about information being sought and/or provided. For example, a user or corporation can employ an anonymizer with respect to web searching so that outside entities are not able to determine what information is attempted to be accessed and by whom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Bradly A. Brunell, Susan T. Dumais, Joshua T. Goodman, Eric J. Horvitz, Gary Flake, Anoop Gupta, Christopher A. Meek, Ramez Naam, Kyle Peltonen
  • Publication number: 20100191744
    Abstract: Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises application code for performing methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Dmitriy Meyerzon, Hugo Zaragoza, Kyle Peltonen, Andrew DeBruyne
  • Patent number: 7644107
    Abstract: A process takes advantage of a structure of a server hosting a network site that includes a change log stored in a database to batch index documents for search queries. The content of the site is batched and shipped in bulk from the server to an indexer. The change log keeps track of the changes to the content of the site. The indexer incrementally requests updates to the index using the change log and batches the changes so that the bandwidth usage and processor overhead costs are reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mircea Neagovici-Negoescu, David James Lee, Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon
  • Patent number: 7499919
    Abstract: Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises application code for performing methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dmitriy Meyerzon, Hugo Zaragoza, Kyle Peltonen, Andrew DeBruyne
  • Patent number: 7415459
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scoping a search. When a content index for electronic data is built, one or more scope restrictions are included in the content index. The scope restriction may be, for example, a root folder identifier, a mailbox identifier, or a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Because the scope restriction is included in the content index random access of the property store to determine the scope is avoided. Rather, the scope restriction is implicitly added to a search that uses the content index. By including a scope restriction in the search query, the search results identified from the content index are limited to results that match the scope restriction. Advantageously, the effect of including the scope restriction in the search is ignored if the search results are relatively small or when including the scope restriction provides little benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon
  • Publication number: 20080005264
    Abstract: The subject disclosure pertains to anonymous network interaction. More specifically, mechanisms are provided to ensure anonymity with respect network interaction such that third parties are unable to determine the source and/or intent of communications. Accordingly, entities can anonymize all outgoing and/or incoming data packets so as to mitigate outside entities from learning about information being sought and/or provided. For example, a user or corporation can employ an anonymizer with respect to web searching so that outside entities are not able to determine what information is attempted to be accessed and by whom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2006
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradly A. Brunell, Susan T. Dumais, Joshua T. Goodman, Eric J. Horvitz, Gary Flake, Anoop Gupta, Christopher A. Meek, Ramez Naam, Kyle Peltonen
  • Publication number: 20070067284
    Abstract: Methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed. Computer readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for performing a method of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are also disclosed. Further, computing systems containing at least one application module, wherein the at least one application module comprises application code for performing methods of providing a document relevance score to a document on a network are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dmitriy Meyerzon, Hugo Zaragoza, Kyle Peltonen, Andrew DeBruyne
  • Publication number: 20060200446
    Abstract: Documents are indexed in accordance with a process that separates the filtering and word breaking portions of the process so that they are performed under a restricted security setting. When a document is requested by an indexer, the document is retrieved and then passed to the higher security process. The document is then filtered one or more filters and tokenized by one or more wordbreakers under the restricted security setting before being passed to the indexer. The restricted security setting prevents security vulnerabilities from being exploited during the filtering and word breaking processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dennis Gursky, Kyle Peltonen, Yevgeniy Samsonov
  • Publication number: 20060200464
    Abstract: A text document is segmented into word and sentence information when the document is first presented and indexed. A memory stream is generated for the document. The memory stream includes document title information, word offsets, sentence offsets, the alternate list, and the contents of the document. The memory stream is used to determine which sentences in the document include query terms. The sentences that include query terms are ranked according to a ranking algorithm. The ranking algorithm determines which sentences include the highest number of query terms and the number of occurrences of the query terms in each sentence. A predetermined number of sentences that together contain as many query terms as possible are selected such that the sentences that are most representative of the document with respect to the query are included in the summary. The summary is generated at query time by concatenating the selected sentences with the query terms highlighted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2005
    Publication date: September 7, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michal Gideoni, David Lee, Dmitriy Meyerzon, Mihai Petriuc, Kyle Peltonen
  • Publication number: 20060190447
    Abstract: A method and system for providing to a user a set of alternative query suggestions is disclosed. The method, system and computer readable medium product in accordance with embodiments of the invention includes generating an index of all words in a corpus of documents available to the application, generating a popularity table for the index having a popularity value for each word in the index based on occurrences of the word in the corpus, comparing each entry in the popularity table to suggestions from a word generator, compiling a lexicon of word generator suggestion words that are found in the popularity table, submitting each word in the search query to the word generator to determine suggestion words, and displaying to the user one or more of the suggestion words from the lexicon that are more popular than the query word.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2005
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Harmon, Kyle Peltonen, Shajan Dasan
  • Patent number: 7065523
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scoping a search. When a content index for electronic data is built, one or more scope restrictions are included in the content index. The scope restriction may be, for example, a root folder identifier, a mailbox identifier, or a URL. Because the scope restriction is included in the content index random access of the property store to determine the scope is avoided. Rather, the scope restriction is implicitly added to a search that uses the content index. By including a scope restriction in the search query, the search results identified from the content index are limited to results that match the scope restriction. Advantageously, the effect of including the scope restriction in the search is ignored if the search results are relatively small or when including the scope restriction provides little benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon
  • Publication number: 20060074911
    Abstract: A process takes advantage of a structure of a server hosting a network site that includes a change log stored in a database to batch index documents for search queries. The content of the site is batched and shipped in bulk from the server to an indexer. The change log keeps track of the changes to the content of the site. The indexer incrementally requests updates to the index using the change log and batches the changes so that the bandwidth usage and processor overhead costs are reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Mircea Neagovici-Negoescu, David Lee, Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon
  • Publication number: 20060074865
    Abstract: A set of index keys is included in an index search system that are associated with the scope of the search rather than the content of the documents that are the target of the search. These scope related index keys, or scope keys allows the scope of the search to be selected, reducing the number of documents that a search is required to sift through to obtain results. Furthermore, compound scopes are recognized and stored such that an index of complex search scopes is provided to eliminate rehashing of the searches based on these complex search scopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Chadd Merrigan, Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon, David Lee
  • Publication number: 20050177554
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating full text searching utilizing inverted keyword indices in shared memory are provided. An inverted keyword index and an inverted keyword attribute index are created from keyword tokens from a set of documents. The keyword indices are stored in a shared memory buffer and accessed by a query processing component. Shared memory pointers corresponding to the indices are dynamically adjusted according to the addressing schema of the query processing component. The query processing component then processes data queries from the keyword indices stored in the shared memory buffer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2004
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Inventors: Kyle Peltonen, Michael Cheng, David Lee
  • Patent number: 6898592
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scoping a search. When a content index for electronic data is built, one or more scope restrictions are included in the content index. The scope restriction may be, for example, a root folder identifier, a mailbox identifier, or a URL. Because the scope restriction is included in the content index random access of the property store to determine the scope is avoided. Rather, the scope restriction is implicitly added to a search that uses the content index. By including a scope restriction in the search query, the search results identified from the content index are limited to results that match the scope restriction. Advantageously, the effect of including the scope restriction in the search is ignored if the search results are relatively small or when including the scope restriction provides little benefit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon
  • Publication number: 20050080779
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scoping a search. When a content index for electronic data is built, one or more scope restrictions are included in the content index. The scope restriction may be, for example, a root folder identifier, a mailbox identifier, or a URL. Because the scope restriction is included in the content index random access of the property store to determine the scope is avoided. Rather, the scope restriction is implicitly added to a search that uses the content index. By including a scope restriction in the search query, the search results identified from the content index are limited to results that match the scope restriction. Advantageously, the effect of including the scope restriction in the search is ignored if the search results are relatively small or when including the scope restriction provides little benefit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon
  • Publication number: 20050044074
    Abstract: Systems and methods for scoping a search. When a content index for electronic data is built, one or more scope restrictions are included in the content index. The scope restriction may be, for example, a root folder identifier, a mailbox identifier, or a URL. Because the scope restriction is included in the content index random access of the property store to determine the scope is avoided. Rather, the scope restriction is implicitly added to a search that uses the content index. By including a scope restriction in the search query, the search results identified from the content index are limited to results that match the scope restriction. Advantageously, the effect of including the scope restriction in the search is ignored if the search results are relatively small or when including the scope restriction provides little benefit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle Peltonen, Dmitriy Meyerzon