Patents by Inventor Laura J. Baldwin

Laura J. Baldwin 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: 7895193
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides systems and methods that facilitate providing specialized content associated with web results in response to a user query to provide queried information directly to a user without requiring the user to select a link and/or scroll through information on a web page associated therewith. Reference language models can be generated from multiple queries and can be compared to a query language model generated from web results returned in response to a user query. Based on such comparison, a determination can be made regarding whether a particular portion of specialized content corresponding to some particular query keywords is relevant enough to warrant direct presentation to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Silviu-Petru Cucerzan, Jamie P. Buckley, Laura J. Baldwin, Randall F. Kern, Eric D. Brill
  • Patent number: 7743048
    Abstract: A system and method are provided for implementing a geographic search mode in connection with a search engine. The method may include indexing geographic locations for resources available to the search engine in a search engine index. The method may additionally include determining a target location for a particular user upon receiving a user query from the particular user and searching the search engine index for geographic location matches matching the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Laura J. Baldwin