Patents by Inventor Shashidhar A. Thakur
Shashidhar A. Thakur 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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Publication number: 20230205828Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Patent number: 10019495Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels. In one aspect, a method includes determining an entity that is referenced by a received search query. Content items relevant to the entity are identified. A set of knowledge modules is selected for presentation in a knowledge panel for the entity. The knowledge panel can be a portion of a search results page in which knowledge modules are presented. Data that causes the knowledge modules to be presented in the knowledge panel is provided to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Kavi J. Goel, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Jared L. Levy, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Eyal Carmi, John R. Provine, Emily Kay Moxley
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Publication number: 20180046717Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Patent number: 9830390Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Publication number: 20170011102Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels. In one aspect, a method includes determining an entity that is referenced by a received search query. Content items relevant to the entity are identified. A set of knowledge modules is selected for presentation in a knowledge panel for the entity. The knowledge panel can be a portion of a search results page in which knowledge modules are presented. Data that causes the knowledge modules to be presented in the knowledge panel is provided to a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Kavi J. Goel, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Jared L. Levy, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Eyal Carmi, John R. Provine, Emily Kay Moxley
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Patent number: 9477711Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels. In one aspect, a method includes determining an entity that is referenced by a received search query. Content items relevant to the entity are identified. A set of knowledge modules is selected for presentation in a knowledge panel for the entity. The knowledge panel can be a portion of a search results page in which knowledge modules are presented. Data that causes the knowledge modules to be presented in the knowledge panel is provided to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Kavi J. Goel, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Jared L. Levy, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Eyal Carmi, John R. Provine, Emily K. Moxley
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Publication number: 20160179958Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2016Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Patent number: 9275152Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Publication number: 20160042427Abstract: A product search engine uses web-crawling software to index textual webpage content from multiple internet sources. The product data obtained from the web-crawling process is then granulized by parsing methods into key words, such as, words and/or phrases. These components are compared with existing key words from search queries or webpage content. Each key word includes component tags, where the component tags map each component to product classification information in the form of structural parameters; and other product information such as, URLs, product images and product descriptions. When at least one matching key word is found, structural parameters are extracted from the matching components and assigned to the received key words. A search results webpage including product information grouped by associated structural parameter may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Shashidhar A. Thakur, Neil Fernandes
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Patent number: 9171088Abstract: A product search engine uses web-crawling software to index textual webpage content from multiple internet sources. The product data obtained from the web-crawling process is then granulized by parsing methods into key words, such as, words and/or phrases. These components are compared with existing key words from search queries or webpage content. Each key word includes component tags, where the component tags map each component to product classification information in the form of structural parameters; and other product information such as, URLs, product images and product descriptions. When at least one matching key word is found, structural parameters are extracted from the matching components and assigned to the received key words. A search results webpage including product information grouped by associated structural parameter may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2011Date of Patent: October 27, 2015Assignee: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Shashidhar A. Thakur, Neil Fernandes
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Patent number: 8892549Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus, including computer program products, for ranking expertise. In some implementations a method is provided that includes identifying a plurality of identities, and identifying a plurality of topics using one or more documents in a repository. For a document in a corpus of documents identifying one or more occurrences of any identity in the plurality of identities and one or more occurrences of any topic in the plurality of topics, determining an association between the identities occurring in the document and the document including deriving an identity score for each unique identity occurring in the document, determining an association between the topics occurring in the document and the document including deriving a topic score for each unique topic occurring in the document, and using the determined associations to derive a score of the document with respect to identities and topics occurring in the document.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2007Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Shashidhar A. Thakur
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Publication number: 20130311458Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing knowledge panels. In one aspect, a method includes determining an entity that is referenced by a received search query. Content items relevant to the entity are identified. A set of knowledge modules is selected for presentation in a knowledge panel for the entity. The knowledge panel can be a portion of a search results page in which knowledge modules are presented. Data that causes the knowledge modules to be presented in the knowledge panel is provided to a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Kavi J. Goel, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Jared L. Levy, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Eyal Carmi, John R. Provine, Emily K. Moxley
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Patent number: 8554769Abstract: This specification describes technologies relating to providing search results. One aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving a network resource, the network resource including text content; generating a language model score for the resource including applying a language model to the text content of the resource; generating a query stuffing score for the reference, the query stuffing score being a function of term frequency in the resource content and a query index; calculating a gibberish score for the resource using the language model score and the query stuffing score; and using the calculated gibberish score to determine whether to modify a ranking score of the resource.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2009Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Shashidhar A. Thakur, Sushrut Karanjkar, Pavel Levin, Thorsten Brants
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Publication number: 20130238594Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying entities that are related to an entity to which a search query is directed. One of the methods includes receiving a search query, wherein the search query has been determined to relate to a first entity of a first entity type, and wherein one or more entities of a second entity type have a relationship with the first entity; receiving search results for the search query; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource containing a reference to the first entity satisfies a first threshold value; determining that a count of search results identifying a resource having the second entity type as a relevant entity type satisfies a second threshold value; and transmitting information identifying the one or more entities of the second entity type as part of the response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2013Publication date: September 12, 2013Inventors: Peter Jin Hong, Pravir K. Gupta, Nathaniel J. Gaylinn, Ramakrishnan Kazhiyur-Mannar, Kavi J. Goel, Omer Bar-or, Jack W. Menzel, Christina R. Dhanaraj, Jared L. Levy, Shashidhar A. Thakur, Grace Chung, Benson Tsai
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Publication number: 20120259882Abstract: A product search engine uses web-crawling software to index textual webpage content from multiple internet sources. The product data obtained from the web-crawling process is then granulized by parsing methods into key words, such as, words and/or phrases. These components are compared with existing key words from search queries or webpage content. Each key word includes component tags, where the component tags map each component to product classification information in the form of structural parameters; and other product information such as, URLs, product images and product descriptions. When at least one matching key word is found, structural parameters are extracted from the matching components and assigned to the received key words. A search results webpage including product information grouped by associated structural parameter may be provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2011Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Shashidhar A. Thakur, Neil Fernandes
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Publication number: 20120158712Abstract: A server system associates one or more locations with a query by identifying the query, selecting a set of documents responsive to the query, and assigning weights to respective documents in the set of documents based, at least in part, on historical data of user clicks selecting search result links in search results produced for historical queries substantially the same as the identified query. Websites hosting the selected documents are identified, and, for each website, location-specific information for one or more locations is retrieved, including a location-specific score that corresponds to the likelihood that the respective location corresponds to a respective website. For each respective location for which location-specific information was retrieved, aggregating the location-specific scores, as weighted by the document weights, to compute an aggregated likelihood that the respective location is associated with the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2011Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Sushrut Karanjkar, Viswanath Subramanian, Shashidhar Thakur
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Patent number: 7877388Abstract: A method (and system) for clustering a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The method includes inputting a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The items are provided into a clustering process. The method also inputs an initial organization structure into the clustering process. The initial organization structure includes one or more categories, at least one of the categories being associated with one of the items. The method processes the plurality of items based upon at least the initial organization structure and the information in each of the items; and determines a resulting organization structure based upon the processing. The resulting organization structure relates to the initial organization structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2007Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: Stratify, Inc.Inventors: John O. Lamping, Ramana Venkata, Shashidhar Thakur, Samdeer Siruguri
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Patent number: 7308451Abstract: A method (and system) for clustering a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The method includes inputting a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The items are provided into a clustering process. The method also inputs an initial organization structure into the clustering process. The initial organization structure includes one or more categories, at least one of the categories being associated with one of the items. The method processes the plurality of items based upon at least the initial organization structure and the information in each of the items; and determines a resulting organization structure based upon the processing. The resulting organization structure relates to the initial organization structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2001Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Assignee: Stratify, Inc.Inventors: John O. Lamping, Ramana Venkata, Shashidhar Thakur, Sameer Siruguri