Patents by Inventor P. Pandurang Nayak
P. Pandurang Nayak 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: 9697249Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server evaluates the potential revised queries, and selects one or more of them to provide to the user. A session-based reviser suggests one or more revised queries, given a first query, by calculating an expected utility for the revised query. The expected utility is calculated as the product of a frequency of occurrence of the query pair and an increase in quality of the revised query over the first query.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, Benedict A. Gomes, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Patent number: 9317606Abstract: A computer implemented method and system for spell correcting terms within a string of terms that a computer system receives from a computer readable data string representative of a user search query.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: P. Pandurang Nayak, Juraj Gottweis
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Patent number: 9104750Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for collecting query term substitution data based on one or more identified concepts. According to one implementation, a method includes receiving a query that includes at least three sequential query terms; determining that the sequential query terms represent a concept; and in response to determining that the sequential query terms represent a concept, collecting query term substitution data for one or more query terms that occur in queries that include the concept.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Kedar Dhamdhere, Thomas Strohmann, P. Pandurang Nayak, Robert Spalek
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Publication number: 20150205866Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for retrieving documents. One of the methods includes receiving a search query that includes a first query term and an adjacent, second query term, and a substitute term for the first query term. A determination is made that the first query term and the substitute term satisfy one or more predetermined criteria and that a resource does not include the first query term. The resource is selected to be scored only if the substitute term occurs adjacent to the second term in the resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2012Publication date: July 23, 2015Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Hayden Shaw, Robert B. Avery, Trystan G. Upstill, Thomas Strohmann, Pi-Chuan Chang, John Blitzer, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Patent number: 9069841Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server evaluates the potential revised queries, and selects one or more of them to provide to the user. A session-based reviser suggests one or more revised queries, given a first query, by calculating an expected utility for the revised query. The expected utility is calculated as the product of a frequency of occurrence of the query pair and an increase in quality of the revised query over the first query.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2008Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, Benedict A. Gomes, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Publication number: 20140358904Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for evaluating terms that are candidate substitute terms for query terms, and revising search queries to include substitute terms. When search results are returned in response to a search query, text associated with a search result is examined to identify a particular term that is not found in the search query. The association score for the particular term as a substitute for a query term is incremented.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2012Publication date: December 4, 2014Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: P. Pandurang Nayak, Kedar Dhamdhere, John Ogden Lamping
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Publication number: 20140344263Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a search query that includes a query term from a client device; obtaining first search results for the search query; identifying a candidate expansion of the query term in text associated with the first search results; revising the search query to include the candidate expansion of the query term; and obtaining second search results for the revised search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2011Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Kedar Dhamdhere, P. Pandurang Nayak, Thomas Strohmann, Brian F. Cooper
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Patent number: 8676797Abstract: A method of adding web-based content to a web notebook can include producing multiple search results responsive to a search request; generating in the multiple search results multiple corresponding icons, each of which, when invoked, causes content associated with a corresponding search result in the multiple search results to be placed in a web notebook associated with a user account; and forming a correlation between one of the multiple search results and the web notebook.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2007Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Christopher Rohrs, Michael Frumkin, Avni Shah, Benedict A. Gomes, Bay-Wei Chang, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Patent number: 8375049Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture providing one or more query revisers, each of which implements a query revision strategy. A query rank reviser suggests known highly-ranked queries as revisions to a first query by initially assigning a rank to all queries, and identifying a set of known highly-ranked queries (KHRQ). Queries with a strong probability of being revised to a KHRQ are identified as nearby queries (NQ). Alternative queries that are KHRQs are provided as candidate revisions for a given query. For alternative queries that are NQs, the corresponding known highly-ranked queries are provided as candidate revisions.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2010Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, David Ariel Cohn, Barbara Engelhardt, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Patent number: 8140524Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server evaluates the potential revised queries, and selects one or more of them to provide to the user. A session-based reviser suggests one or more revised queries, given a first query, by calculating an expected utility for the revised query. The expected utility is calculated as the product of a frequency of occurrence of the query pair and an increase in quality of the revised query over the first query.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2008Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, Benedict A. Gomes, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Publication number: 20110060736Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture providing one or more query revisers, each of which implements a query revision strategy. A query rank reviser suggests known highly-ranked queries as revisions to a first query by initially assigning a rank to all queries, and identifying a set of known highly-ranked queries (KHRQ). Queries with a strong probability of being revised to a KHRQ are identified as nearby queries (NQ). Alternative queries that are KHRQs are provided as candidate revisions for a given query. For alternative queries that are NQs, the corresponding known highly-ranked queries are provided as candidate revisions.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2010Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, David Ariel Cohn, Barbara Engelhardt, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Patent number: 7870147Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture providing one or more query revisers, each of which implements a query revision strategy. A query rank reviser suggests known highly-ranked queries as revisions to a first query by initially assigning a rank to all queries, and identifying a set of known highly-ranked queries (KHRQ). Queries with a strong probability of being revised to a KHRQ are identified as nearby queries (NQ). Alternative queries that are KHRQs are provided as candidate revisions for a given query. For alternative queries that are NQs, the corresponding known highly-ranked queries are provided as candidate revisions.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2005Date of Patent: January 11, 2011Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, David Ariel Cohn, Barbara Engelhardt, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Patent number: 7617205Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server evaluates the potential revised queries, and selects one or more of them to provide to the user. A session-based reviser suggests one or more revised queries, given a first query, by calculating an expected utility for the revised query. The expected utility is calculated as the product of a frequency of occurrence of the query pair and an increase in quality of the revised query over the first query.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2005Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, Benedict A. Gomes, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Patent number: 7565345Abstract: An information retrieval system includes a query revision architecture that integrates multiple different query revisers, each implementing one or more query revision strategies. A revision server receives a user's query, and interfaces with the various query revisers, each of which generates one or more potential revised queries. The revision server evaluates the potential revised queries, and selects one or more of them to provide to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2005Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: David R. Bailey, Alexis J. Battle, Benedict A. Gomes, P. Pandurang Nayak
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Publication number: 20070266011Abstract: A method of adding web-based content to a web notebook can include producing multiple search results responsive to a search request; generating in the multiple search results multiple corresponding icons, each of which, when invoked, causes content associated with a corresponding search result in the multiple search results to be placed in a web notebook associated with a user account; and forming a correlation between one of the multiple search results and the web notebook.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2007Publication date: November 15, 2007Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Christopher Rohrs, Michael Frumkin, Avni Shah, Benedict A. Gomes, Bay-Wei Chang, P. Pandurang Nayak