Patents by Inventor Qiaozhu Mei

Qiaozhu Mei 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).

  • Personalized information retrieval search with backoff
    Patent number: 7783636
    Abstract: Query logs are accessed to obtain queries, user information that specifies a user from which the query was received, a long with a selected result that was selected by the specified user who authored the query. This query log information is used to identify classes of users that looked for a similar result given a similar query. Those classes can then be used by a search engine in order to rank or provide search results to a user in response to a query input by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth W. Church, Qiaozhu Mei
  • Personalized information retrieval search with backoff
    Publication number: 20080082485
    Abstract: Query logs are accessed to obtain queries, user information that specifies a user from which the query was received, a long with a selected result that was selected by the specified user who authored the query. This query log information is used to identify classes of users that looked for a similar result given a similar query. Those classes can then be used by a search engine in order to rank or provide search results to a user in response to a query input by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Publication date: April 3, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Ward Church, Qiaozhu Mei