Patents by Inventor Neil Sharman
Neil Sharman 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).
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Patent number: 9185163Abstract: Methods and systems for quickly serving documents are provided. Documents may be served to users, for example, in response to search query inputs. Documents may be individually communicated to a document server prior to batching the documents. By individually communicating documents to document servers, the document experiences sub-second latency before it is available to a user. The documents may also be modified individually such that real-time serving is not interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel Yuan, Neil Sharman, Jay Goyal, Utkarsh Jain, Vibhaakar Sharma, Vinay Deshpande, Oren Firestein
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Patent number: 9158767Abstract: Methods and systems for serving documents are provided. Documents may be served to users, for example, in response to search query inputs. Documents may be individually received for serving to users. In order to serve documents, documents are typically indexed. To serve documents in a real-time environment, a data structure is configured to index documents that are received while simultaneously being queried for documents to serve to a user. Documents that have not yet completed the indexing process are not available for serving and, thus, are not queried. Additionally, the data structure includes a memory optimizer such that indexing does not waste memory of the data structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Neil Sharman, Vibhaakar Sharma
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Patent number: 8990612Abstract: Methods and systems for quickly serving documents are provided. Documents may be served to users, for example, in response to search query inputs. Documents may be individually communicated to a document server individually prior to batching the documents. In such a real-time serving system, serving components may fail. To ensure real-time serving despite the failure, spares are utilized to replace the failing serving components such that the spare can immediately begin receiving documents. The spare can also be synchronized with other serving components to obtain the memory of the failing serving component prior to the failure.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel Yuan, Neil Sharman, Jay Goyal, Utkarsh Jain, Vibhaakar Sharma, Vinay Deshpande
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Publication number: 20120257246Abstract: Methods and systems for quickly serving documents are provided. Documents may be served to users, for example, in response to search query inputs. Documents may be individually communicated to a document server prior to batching the documents. By individually communicating documents to document servers, the document experiences sub-second latency before it is available to a user. The documents may also be modified individually such that real-time serving is not interrupted.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: DANIEL YUAN, NEIL SHARMAN, JAY GOYAL, UTKARSH JAIN, VIBHAAKAR SHARMA, VINAY DESHPANDE, OREN FIRESTEIN
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Publication number: 20120259860Abstract: Methods and systems for serving documents are provided. Documents may be served to users, for example, in response to search query inputs. Documents may be individually received for serving to users. In order to serve documents, documents are typically indexed. To serve documents in a real-time environment, a data structure is configured to index documents that are received while simultaneously being queried for documents to serve to a user. Documents that have not yet completed the indexing process are not available for serving and, thus, are not queried. Additionally, the data structure includes a memory optimizer such that indexing does not waste memory of the data structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: NEIL SHARMAN, VIBHAAKAR SHARMA
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Publication number: 20120260124Abstract: Methods and systems for quickly serving documents are provided. Documents may be served to users, for example, in response to search query inputs. Documents may be individually communicated to a document server individually prior to batching the documents. In such a real-time serving system, serving components may fail. To ensure real-time serving despite the failure, spares are utilized to replace the failing serving components such that the spare can immediately begin receiving documents. The spare can also be synchronized with other serving components to obtain the memory of the failing serving component prior to the failure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: DANIEL YUAN, NEIL SHARMAN, JAY GOYAL, UTKARSH JAIN, VIBHAAKAR SHARMA, VINAY DESHPANDE
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Patent number: 8239391Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are provided for an optimized search engine index. The optimized index is formed by merging small lower level indexes of fresh documents together into a hierarchical cluster of multiple higher level indexes. The optimized index of fresh documents is formed via a single threaded process, while a fresh index serving platform concurrently serves fresh queries. The hierarchy of higher level indexes is formed by merging lower and/or higher level indexes with similar expiration times together. Therefore, as some indexes expire, the remaining un-expired indexes can be re-used and merged with new incoming indexes. The single threaded process provides fast serving of fresh documents, while also providing time to integrate the fresh indexes into a long term primary search engine index, prior to expiring.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jay Kumar Goyal, Neil Sharman, Vibhaakar Sharma, Vinay Sudhir Deshpande, Utkarsh Jain, Gaurav Sareen, Yinzhe Yu, Daniel Yuan
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Publication number: 20120016864Abstract: Methods, systems, and media are provided for an optimized search engine index. The optimized index is formed by merging small lower level indexes of fresh documents together into a hierarchical cluster of multiple higher level indexes. The optimized index of fresh documents is formed via a single threaded process, while a fresh index serving platform concurrently serves fresh queries. The hierarchy of higher level indexes is formed by merging lower and/or higher level indexes with similar expiration times together. Therefore, as some indexes expire, the remaining un-expired indexes can be re-used and merged with new incoming indexes. The single threaded process provides fast serving of fresh documents, while also providing time to integrate the fresh indexes into a long term primary search engine index, prior to expiring.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: JAY KUMAR GOYAL, NEIL SHARMAN, VIBHAAKAR SHARMA, VINAY SUDHIR DESHPANDE, UTKARSH JAIN, GAURAV SAREEN, YINZHE YU, DANIEL YUAN