Patents by Inventor Murtaza A. Basrai

Murtaza A. Basrai 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).

  • Reranking query completions
    Patent number: 9298852
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reranking query completions based on activity session data. One of the methods includes receiving a query prefix from a user. Query completions are obtained for the query prefix. One or more likely queries that are likely to co-occur with a reference query in user activity sessions are obtained. If one of the likely queries matches one of the query completions, a modified ranking of the query completions is determined, including boosting a ranking of matching query completions. The modified ranking of the query completions is provided in response to receiving the query prefix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Emanuel Taropa, Jeffrey A. Dean, Simon Tong, Nitin Gupta, Noam M. Shazeer, Anwis Das, Murtaza A. Basrai
  • RERANKING QUERY COMPLETIONS
    Publication number: 20150169578
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reranking query completions based on activity session data. One of the methods includes receiving a query prefix from a user. Query completions are obtained for the query prefix. One or more likely queries that are likely to co-occur with a reference query in user activity sessions are obtained. If one of the likely queries matches one of the query completions, a modified ranking of the query completions is determined, including boosting a ranking of matching query completions. The modified ranking of the query completions is provided in response to receiving the query prefix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Emanuel Taropa, Jeffrey A. Dean, Simon Tong, Nitin Gupta, Noam M. Shazeer, Anwis Das, Murtaza A. Basrai