Patents by Inventor Paul Baecke

Paul Baecke 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: 11436230
    Abstract: In a multi-tenant computing system, a cross-tenant user search system receives a user search input from a user using a client of a first tenant. The cross-tenant user search system accesses a policy that identifies one or more related tenants that are related to the first tenant. The policy also identifies directory records of users in the related tenant that can be searched by users of the first tenant. The cross-tenant user search system executes a search against a directory for the first tenant and executes a separate search against the directory records in the related tenants, identified in the policy. The search results from searching the directory for the first tenant and the related search results from searching the directory records in the tenant are aggregated into an aggregated set of search results which are then returned to the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Shankaranand Arunachalam, Robert Allen Lowe, Jason Craig Nelson, Paul Baecke, Xiaoqin Zhu, Ganesh Pandey, Parul Manek
  • Publication number: 20220156327
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic search interfaces. In one implementation, a search query is received from a user within a content retrieval interface. The search query is processed with respect to a first content source to determine a relevance of the first content source with respect to the search query. Based on a determination that the first content source exceeds a defined relevance threshold, content from the first content source is requested and/or received. The content received from the first content source is presented within the content retrieval interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Alexander L. CAMPBELL, Malik M. PRADHAN, Robert D. FRYE, Paul BAECKE, Kimberly A. WILTON, Gustavo M. C. GUERRA, Gaurav S. ANAND
  • Patent number: 11269960
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic search interfaces. In one implementation, a search query is received from a user within a content retrieval interface. The search query is processed with respect to a first content source to determine a relevance of the first content source with respect to the search query. Based on a determination that the first content source exceeds a defined relevance threshold, content from the first content source is requested and/or received. The content received from the first content source is presented within the content retrieval interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander L. Campbell, Malik M. Pradhan, Robert D. Frye, Paul Baecke, Kimberly A. Wilton, Gustavo M. C. Guerra, Gaurav S. Anand
  • Patent number: 10754912
    Abstract: Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to improve the perceived responsiveness of a search engine. As a user types a query prefix into a browser or other interface to the search engine, the search engine returns query completion suggestions to the browser. The query completion suggestions, user history, user favorites and/or other information are presented to a trained machine learning model on the client device to predict a desired location that the user is attempting to navigate to. When the confidence level of the predicted location surpasses a threshold, content from the desired location is preloaded into a hidden tab in the browser. When the user submits a query, the browser submits feedback to a system responsible for updating and refining the machine learning model. Updated machine learning model coefficients can be received by the browser from the system to make predictions more accurate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Nathan Novielli, Yan Zhong, Paul Baecke, Sean Lyndersay, David Sheldon, Malik Mehdi Pradhan, Dheeraj Mehta, Daniel Hill
  • Publication number: 20190278870
    Abstract: Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to improve the perceived responsiveness of a search engine. As a user types a query prefix into a browser or other interface to the search engine, the search engine returns query completion suggestions to the browser. The query completion suggestions, user history, user favorites and/or other information are presented to a trained machine learning model on the client device to predict a desired location that the user is attempting to navigate to. When the confidence level of the predicted location surpasses a threshold, content from the desired location is preloaded into a hidden tab in the browser. When the user submits a query, the browser submits feedback to a system responsible for updating and refining the machine learning model. Updated machine learning model coefficients can be received by the browser from the system to make predictions more accurate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Nathan Novielli, Yan Zhong, Paul Baecke, Sean Lyndersay, David Sheldon, Malik Mehdi Pradhan, Dheeraj Mehta, Daniel Hill
  • Publication number: 20180330016
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic search interfaces. In one implementation, a search query is received from a user within a content retrieval interface. The search query is processed with respect to a first content source to determine a relevance of the first content source with respect to the search query. Based on a determination that the first content source exceeds a defined relevance threshold, content from the first content source is requested and/or received. The content received from the first content source is presented within the content retrieval interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander L. Campbell, Malik M. Pradhan, Robert D. Frye, Paul Baecke, Kimberly A. Wilton, Gustavo M. C. Guerra, Gaurav S. Anand
  • Patent number: 9633018
    Abstract: Architecture presents in a display related content in association with (an annotation) a social media post, as derived from post information of the social media post itself. The related content can be presented in the user interface proximate the social media post or elsewhere in the user interface. The related content can be presented as search engine queries, images, videos, and/or links to related websites. More specifically, the disclosed architecture facilitates the automated annotation of a social media post with related content derived from: post information such as a URL (uniform resource locator) referred to in the social media post, post information such as the text, image(s), and/or video content in a social media post itself, and post information such as content linked-to by a URL referred to in a social media post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Baecke, Mark Atherton
  • Patent number: 9430573
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions that include answers to the complete queries suggested while the user is formulating a search query. At least a portion of a search query is received by the search engine. As the portion of the search query is received, query-completion suggestions are identified and answers to the plausible search query completions are identified for inclusion in the search input area. Upon selection of a query-completion suggestion, the search engine results page is presented, wherein the search engine results page includes the answers in the snippets generated for the results that contain the answers to the completed queries suggested to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Richard Bailey, Michele Banko, Paul Baecke
  • Publication number: 20150199436
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing query-completion suggestions that include answers to the complete queries suggested while the user is formulating a search query. At least a portion of a search query is received by the search engine. As the portion of the search query is received, query-completion suggestions are identified and answers to the plausible search query completions are identified for inclusion in the search input area. Upon selection of a query-completion suggestion, the search engine results page is presented, wherein the search engine results page includes the answers in the snippets generated for the results that contain the answers to the completed queries suggested to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2014
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Richard Bailey, Michele Banko, Paul Baecke
  • Publication number: 20150193447
    Abstract: Architecture that generates local intent suggestions as completion suggestions (auto-suggest solutions) for an incomplete (or partially-entered) search query. The local intent suggestions are “synthetic” in that these suggestions are derived based on the near or total absence of any prior query history. The local intent suggestions can be derived and presented without the typical web-based suggestions or with the web-based suggestions. The web-based suggestions are blended (e.g., placed above, under, or mixed in with) with the local intent suggestions and displayed to the user. Web interfaces include, but are not limited to a full page display interface (e.g., that includes a full page map, pin points with images, sub-intents, title and description), and/or a right pane (sub-pane) auto-suggest interface with mini-map pinpoints, sub-intents, and disambiguation tiles, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Voinea, Mariusz Kukawski, Paul Baecke, Andras Csehi, Darrin Eide
  • Publication number: 20140201178
    Abstract: Architecture presents in a display related content in association with (an annotation) a social media post, as derived from post information of the social media post itself. The related content can be presented in the user interface proximate the social media post or elsewhere in the user interface. The related content can be presented as search engine queries, images, videos, and/or links to related websites. More specifically, the disclosed architecture facilitates the automated annotation of a social media post with related content derived from: post information such as a URL (uniform resource locator) referred to in the social media post, post information such as the text, image(s), and/or video content in a social media post itself, and post information such as content linked-to by a URL referred to in a social media post.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2013
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Baecke, Mark Atherton