Patents by Inventor Simone Maillard

Simone Maillard 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).

  • Systems and methods for discovery of data that needs improving or authored using user search results diagnostics
    Patent number: 7702671
    Abstract: A search mechanism is evaluated or a relevance model checked using session level and result level diagnostics based on user behavior during a search session with respect to queries entered and user responses to result lists. Tracking occurs of when content desired by a user exists, but is not returned in a search result list when a query is made by the user with intent to find the desired content, when content desired by the user does not exist, when content desired by a user exists, but is not recognized by the user in a result list or is too low in a result list. A user's intent and search context is also taken into consideration when performing search mechanism diagnostics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nancy Ellen Jacobs, Simone Maillard, Zijian Zheng
  • Systems and methods for discovery of data that needs improving or authored using user search results diagnostics
    Publication number: 20060248057
    Abstract: A search mechanism is evaluated or a relevance model checked using session level and result level diagnostics based on user behavior during a search session with respect to queries entered and user responses to result lists. Tracking occurs of when content desired by a user exists, but is not returned in a search result list when a query is made by the user with intent to find the desired content, when content desired by the user does not exist, when content desired by a user exists, but is not recognized by the user in a result list or is too low in a result list. A user's intent and search context is also taken into consideration when performing search mechanism diagnostics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: November 2, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nancy Jacobs, Simone Maillard, Zijian Zheng