Patents by Inventor Nektarios Ioannides

Nektarios Ioannides 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: 11797632
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for a visual exploration of search engine results. The systems, devices, and methods may present, in response to receiving the search engine results for a query to perform a task, a search result webpage with a cascading waterfall layout that includes a plurality of images from a plurality of webpages included in the search results. The search result webpage may also present, adjacent to the plurality of images, structured data corresponding to a selected image from the plurality of images where the structured data includes details from the webpage to complete the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nikita Astrakhantsev, Parthasarathy Govindarajen, Nektarios Ioannides, Arun Sacheti, Alexander Jack Sunell, Avinash Vemuluru, Xiaodong Fan, Dong Han Wang, Alexandra Victoria Foote, Jun Liu, Elena Usinskiene, Diane Ash Shambaugh, Qianyue You, Liang Tang, Souvick Sarkar, Jeffrey Roger Devries, Adam Jeffrey Curtis
  • Publication number: 20230103575
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing a visual search within a browser. The systems and methods allow users to trigger a visual search from the browser within the user's browsing context. The users may trigger a visual search by hovering over an image and selecting a visual search icon or selecting a visual search option within a context menu. Selecting the visual searches may cause a sidebar to open with visual search results or a flyout to display with visual search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas Fredrick RAY, Adam Jeffrey CURTIS, Jeffrey Roger DEVRIES, Cheyenne ISMAILCIUC, Niveah Tefillah ABRAHAM, Nektarios IOANNIDES, Arun SACHETI, Avinash VEMULURU
  • Publication number: 20220277056
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for a visual exploration of search engine results. The systems, devices, and methods may present, in response to receiving the search engine results for a query to perform a task, a search result webpage with a cascading waterfall layout that includes a plurality of images from a plurality of webpages included in the search results. The search result webpage may also present, adjacent to the plurality of images, structured data corresponding to a selected image from the plurality of images where the structured data includes details from the webpage to complete the task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Nikita ASTRAKHANTSEV, Parthasarathy GOVINDARAJEN, Nektarios IOANNIDES, Arun SACHETI, Alexander Jack SUNELL, Avinash VEMULURU, Xiaodong FAN, Dong Han WANG, Alexandra Victoria FOOTE, Jun LIU, Elena USINSKIENE, Diane Ash SHAMBAUGH, Qianyue YOU, Liang TANG, Souvick SARKAR, Jeffrey Roger DEVRIES, Adam Jeffrey CURTIS
  • Patent number: 10817928
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • Publication number: 20190095984
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • Publication number: 20180373719
    Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for dynamic representation of suggested queries. In an example, a suggested search query may be generated to provide a user with an alternative query that may be used by the user to adjust, refine, or vary a search. The suggested search query may be displayed to the user in the form of suggested content, wherein the suggested content may comprise a compilation or a collage of search results associated with the suggested search query. A suggested search query may be generated based on one or more datasets, wherein a dataset may provide different variations for a given search query. Accordingly, search queries from different datasets may be incorporated into search results, thereby providing diverse and dynamic search suggestions to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jamil VALLIANI, Arun SACHETI, Vincent Kin-Wah LEUNG, Nektarios IOANNIDES, Nan WU, Ryuichi HIRANO, Christopher WALSVICK, Soohoon CHO
  • Patent number: 10157415
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • Publication number: 20160104232
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • Patent number: 9141987
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Barbara Leigh Perks, Anastasia Paushkina, Nektarios Ioannides, Lawrence Lam, Sonam Saxena
  • Publication number: 20150134639
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-readable are presented for enabling a computer user to add content to a social content item of a social content thread hosted by a third party social networking site. In response to a search query, a search engine generates a search results page that includes at least one social content item that relates to the search query from a third-party social networking site. The search results page includes a user-actionable control by which the requesting computer user can add content to the content thread of the social content item from within the search results page. By interacting with the user-actionable controls, a computer user can add content to a content thread hosted by a social networking site from the search results page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Salituri, Nektarios Ioannides, Charles W. Clines
  • 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