Patents by Inventor Lawrence Colagiovanni

Lawrence Colagiovanni 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: 20130173572
    Abstract: Information from social networks may be used to identify a user's interests and predilections, and the information may be used to affect search results. In one example, social networks have pages that correspond to real entities, such as manufacturers and merchants. Entity pages in social networks are mapped to their corresponding real entities, and information that users leave on the pages (e.g., “likes”, or textual reviews) are extracted to determine users' sentiments about the entities. When users search for products with a search engine, user sentiment is then used to guide the results. Social networks' information about users (e.g., their affinities, such as schools, workplaces, interests) may be used to determine the relevance of specific users' sentiments—e.g., sentiments of users who went to a particular school may be used to influence search results, when the search is requested by someone who went to the same school.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Publication date: July 4, 2013
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Lawrence Colagiovanni, Arun Sacheti, Marcelo De Barros, Nektarios Ioannides, Mikhail Parakhin, Meenaz Merchant