Patents by Inventor Mihai NEGREA

Mihai NEGREA 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: 10762112
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for establishing a search radius based on token frequency. A search query having a geographic indication is received and it is determined whether or not the received query contains one or more non-frequent tokens. Non-frequent tokens have a respective frequency that occurs in the entities included in a data store of entities below a threshold number of times. If it is determined that the received query does not contain one or more non-frequent tokens, the search radius established for the search query, and thus applied to the search, is restricted to a radius established based upon the geographic indication of the query. If it is determined that the received query does contain one or more non-frequent tokens, the search radius is established such that it is larger than if it was established based upon the geographic indication of the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Mihai Negrea, Florin Sabau, Bodin Dresevic, Sameer S. Mutatkar
  • Publication number: 20160321298
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for establishing a search radius based on token frequency. A search query having a geographic indication is received and it is determined whether or not the received query contains one or more non-frequent tokens. Non-frequent tokens have a respective frequency that occurs in the entities included in a data store of entities below a threshold number of times. If it is determined that the received query does not contain one or more non-frequent tokens, the search radius established for the search query, and thus applied to the search, is restricted to a radius established based upon the geographic indication of the query. If it is determined that the received query does contain one or more non-frequent tokens, the search radius is established such that it is larger than if it was established based upon the geographic indication of the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: MIHAI NEGREA, FLORIN SABAU, BODIN DRESEVIC, SAMEER S. MUTATKAR
  • Publication number: 20160292282
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented to respond to a search query that is determined to be a single entity intent search query, i.e., the intent of the requesting computer user is information regarding a single entity. Upon receiving the search query, search results relevant to the query are identified, where each of the search results are scored according to their relevancy to the received search query. An evaluation is made as to whether the search query is a single entity intent search query. Upon determining that the search query has a single entity intent, the obtained search results are truncated to the most relevant search result, and a search results page corresponding to the most relevant search result is generated and returned to the requesting computer user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Ankur KHATOR, Nikola LETIC, Mihai NEGREA, Sameer MUTATKAR, Ionut-Cozmin BANTEA