Patents by Inventor Meera Mahabala

Meera Mahabala 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: 20150154681
    Abstract: A keyword generator identifies words or phrases of interest in a product catalog and also identifies synonyms for the words or phrases of interest. The synonyms are integrated into the product catalog to generate an enriched product catalog. The level of co-occurrence of synonyms between sets of product catalog entries is identified and, if it meets a threshold level, the product names from the catalog entries are integrated into the other catalog entries in the set, as synonyms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Raghu Ram, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Meera Mahabala, Navid Azimi-Garakani, Tao Cheng, Yeye He
  • Publication number: 20150154682
    Abstract: A keyword generator identifies words or phrases of interest in a product catalog and also identifies synonyms for the words or phrases of interest. The synonyms are integrated into the product catalog to generate an enriched product catalog. The enriched product catalog is published for use in one or more commercial channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Raghu Ram, Kaushik Chakrabarti, Meera Mahabala, Navid Azimi-Garakani, Tao Cheng, Yeye He
  • Publication number: 20110066622
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for extracting product lines from a plurality of product titles are provided. In one embodiment, the plurality of product titles are broken into tokens. Association rules are calculated for individual tokens and pairs of tokens. Brand specific terms and product class specific terms within the product titles are identified. In one embodiment, a token tree is used to identify product lines within the list of product titles using the association rules, the brand specific terms, and the product class specific terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nimish G. Dharawat, Meera Mahabala, Gitika Gupta
  • Patent number: 7853597
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for extracting product lines from a plurality of product titles are provided. In one embodiment, the plurality of product titles are broken into tokens. Association rules are calculated for individual tokens and pairs of tokens. Brand specific terms and product class specific terms within the product titles are identified. In one embodiment, a token tree is used to identify product lines within the list of product titles using the association rules, the brand specific terms, and the product class specific terms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nimish G. Dharawat, Meera Mahabala, Gitika Gupta
  • Publication number: 20090271367
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer readable media for extracting product lines from a plurality of product titles are provided. In one embodiment, the plurality of product titles are broken into tokens. Association rules are calculated for individual tokens and pairs of tokens. Brand specific terms and product class specific terms within the product titles are identified. In one embodiment, a token tree is used to identify product lines within the list of product titles using the association rules, the brand specific terms, and the product class specific terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nimish G. Dharawat, Meera Mahabala, Gitika Gupta