Patents by Inventor Tabreez Govani
Tabreez Govani 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: 11960558Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server device receives the prefix and location information. The prefix and the location information are matched with names and locations of entities stored in a database connected to the server device. The server device transmits query completion data to the mobile device. The query completion data includes one or more names that complete the received prefix. The names provided by the server device may be associated with entities that are within a threshold radius of the location information.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Hussein Mohamed Mehanna, Tabreez Govani, Jun Wang, Kun Jing
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Publication number: 20220197966Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server device receives the prefix and location information. The prefix and the location information are matched with names and locations of entities stored in a database connected to the server device. The server device transmits query completion data to the mobile device. The query completion data includes one or more names that complete the received prefix. The names provided by the server device may be associated with entities that are within a threshold radius of the location information.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Hussein Mohamed MEHANNA, Tabreez GOVANI, Jun WANG, Kun JING
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Patent number: 11275808Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server device receives the prefix and location information. The prefix and the location information are matched with names and locations of entities stored in a database connected to the server device. The server device transmits query completion data to the mobile device. The query completion data includes one or more names that complete the received prefix. The names provided by the server device may be associated with entities that are within a threshold radius of the location information.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Hussein Mohamed Mehanna, Tabreez Govani, Jun Wang, Kun Jing
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Publication number: 20190243863Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server device receives the prefix and location information. The prefix and the location information are matched with names and locations of entities stored in a database connected to the server device. The server device transmits query completion data to the mobile device. The query completion data includes one or more names that complete the received prefix. The names provided by the server device may be associated with entities that are within a threshold radius of the location information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Hussein Mohamed Mehanna, Tabreez Govani, Jun Wang, Kun Jing
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Patent number: 10303804Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server device receives the prefix and location information. The prefix and the location information are matched with names and locations of entities stored in a database connected to the server device. The server device transmits query completion data to the mobile device. The query completion data includes one or more names that complete the received prefix. The names provided by the server device may be associated with entities that are within a threshold radius of the location information.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Hussein Mohamed Mehanna, Tabreez Govani, Jun Wang, Kun Jing
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Patent number: 9569540Abstract: Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Nitin Agrawal, Tabreez Govani, Jamie P. Buckley, Michael Maxwell Cameron, Liwei Chen, Hugh Evan Williams, Sanaz Ahari, Yang Yang Zhang, Srinath Reddy Aaleti
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Patent number: 9418155Abstract: Methods, systems, algorithms, and media are provided for disambiguating entities present in a received search query. Lists of categories from semi-structured data from external sites as well as internal sources are used to detect if ambiguity exists in an entity within the search query. Multiple senses or categories of the ambiguous entity are determined by ascertaining the primary intent of an entity extracted from a main term of a document. The probability of each sense is calculated by computing a total amount of traffic received for each of the senses of the ambiguous entity. The sense with the highest amount of computed traffic is the most probable determined sense.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2010Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sarthak Deepak Shah, Tabreez Govani, Farid Hosseini
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Publication number: 20160162580Abstract: Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: June 9, 2016Inventors: NITIN AGRAWAL, TABREEZ GOVANI, JAMIE P. BUCKLEY, MICHAEL MAXWELL CAMERON, LIWEI CHEN, HUGH EVAN WILLIAMS, SANAZ AHARI, YANG YANG ZHANG, SRINATH REDDY AALETI
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Patent number: 9275158Abstract: Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Nitin Agrawal, Tabreez Govani, Jamie P. Buckley, Michael Maxwell Cameron, Liwei Chen, Hugh Evan Williams, Sanaz Ahari, Yang Yang Zhang, Srinath Reddy Aaleti
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Publication number: 20150254260Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that return query completions are provided. A user of a computing device like a mobile phone may enter a prefix. In turn, the prefix and location information associated with the device are transmitted to a server device. The server device receives the prefix and location information. The prefix and the location information are matched with names and locations of entities stored in a database connected to the server device. The server device transmits query completion data to the mobile device. The query completion data includes one or more names that complete the received prefix. The names provided by the server device may be associated with entities that are within a threshold radius of the location information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Hussein Mohamed Mehanna, Tabreez Govani, Jun Wang, Kun Jing
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Patent number: 8990242Abstract: Methods and computer-storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon that facilitate determining enhanced query suggestions are provided. A plurality of query suggestions responsive to a user query are received. Items of data corresponding to the query suggestions are received. Based on the received query suggestions and the received items of data, enhanced query suggestions are determined. In embodiments, an enhanced query suggestion includes one or more items of data related to a respective query suggestion. A user may select at least a portion of an enhanced query suggestion. In embodiments, selection of a portion of an enhanced query suggestion provides additional information.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Asad Mohiuddin, Glen Joseph Fernandes, Hussein Mohamed Mehanna, Tabreez Govani, Ashwin Satyanarayana, Xin Liu
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Patent number: 8909652Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining the Internet search popularity of an entity are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving a group of Internet search records and assigning a popularity ranking based on the number of times an entity descriptor associated with an entity occurs within the group of Internet search records created over a designated time period. An entity descriptor is one or more terms commonly used to identify an entity. The trend in an entity's popularity rank may also be calculated. An entity's popularity rank and trend in popularity rank may be presented in a graph or in a list.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tabreez Govani, Hugh Williams, Jamie Buckley, Nitin Agrawal, Andy Lam, Kenneth A. Moss
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Patent number: 8803882Abstract: Computer-readable media and computerized methods for identifying candidate points on a graphical depiction of relative popularity of an entity (e.g., entertainer, sports team, and the like) are provided. Points on the graphical depiction are ranked based on a number of user-submitted web queries that reference the entity that are received during a particular time frame. Peak points and slope values (i.e., derived from an angle of inclination of inclines on the graphical depiction) may be captured by analyzing movements in the rank of an entity over time. An algorithmic process may then be applied to the peak points and slope values to determine points of interest of the entity's popularity, such as the highest-ranked periods and/or dramatic positive movements in rank of the entity. These points of interest are selected as candidate points and are surfaced as icons on a visual representation of the graphical depiction.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2008Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Andy Lam, Jamie P. Buckley, Hugh Evan Williams, Nicholas Eric Craswell, Tabreez Govani
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Patent number: 8700654Abstract: Methods, computer systems, and computer-readable storage media for dynamically correcting misspelled search queries are provided. A portion of a search query is received, and a data store is accessed. It is determined that the portion of the search query is absent from the data store and, thus, comprises a misspelled portion of a search query. Correctly spelled portions of search queries are dynamically determined for the misspelled portion of the search query using a trie data structure, and the misspelled portion of the search query is associated with the correctly spelled portions of search queries. Search suggestions are determined for the correctly spelled portions of search queries and are ranked based on a frequency of use and on a transformation cost of associating the misspelled portion of the search query with the correctly spelled portion of search queries. The ranked search suggestions are provided to a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2011Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Hussein Mohamed Mehanna, Andrey Proskurin, Tabreez Govani
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Publication number: 20130339335Abstract: Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: NITIN AGRAWAL, TABREEZ GOVANI, JAMIE P. BUCKLEY, MICHAEL MAXWELL CAMERON, LIWEI CHEN, HUGH EVAN WILLIAMS, SANAZ AHARI, YANG YANG ZHANG, SRINATH REDDY AALETI
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Publication number: 20130297584Abstract: A computer system, method, and media for associating locations with ranked websites are provided. The computer system includes a search engine, a log database, and a location database that are employed to respond to search requests from users by returning appropriately ranked websites to the user. The websites are ranked using the location of the website and the location of the user to select websites to receive high ranks. Additionally, the search engine includes a correction feature that reevaluates locations for a website or user when a large number of obtained locations suggest a different location than a currently associated location for the website or the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Inventors: Amit Aggarwal, Nitin Agrawal, Michael Maxwell Cameron, Nicholas Eric Craswell, Nikhil Bharat Dandekar, Tabreez Govani, Hugh Evan Williams
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Patent number: 8560561Abstract: User locality information can be used to improve various aspects of search results pages. Queries can be suggested based on the user location while excluding common query suggestions that involve an unrelated geographic entity. Deeplinks can also be modified to include location based suggestions. Additionally, results for specialized searches such as travel searches can be improved by employing user locality information.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tabreez Govani, Nikhil Dandekar, Gheorghe Muresan
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Publication number: 20130268482Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining the Internet search popularity of an entity are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving a group of Internet search records and assigning a popularity ranking based on the number of times an entity descriptor associated with an entity occurs within the group of Internet search records created over a designated time period. An entity descriptor is one or more terms commonly used to identify an entity. The trend in an entity's popularity rank may also be calculated. An entity's popularity rank and trend in popularity rank may be presented in a graph or in a list.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Inventors: Tabreez Govani, Hugh Williams, Jamie Buckley, Nitin Agrawal, Andy Lam, Kenneth A. Moss
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Patent number: 8543592Abstract: Methods, computer-storage media, and graphical user interfaces are provided for identifying and presenting rich related sites for task-oriented search queries. Upon receipt of a search query input by a user, one or more query logs are analyzed to determine if the search query is a related to a task being performed by the user. If the query is determined to be a task-oriented search query, search results are identified, as is one or more Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) related to a particular search result. The related URL is presented to the user in association with the particular search result. Additional controls, e.g., search tools that facilitate querying of those URLs determined to be relevant to a particular search result, may also be provided to aid the user in performing the task at hand.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Nitin Agrawal, Tabreez Govani, Jamie P. Buckley, Michael Maxwell Cameron, Liwei Chen, Hugh Evan Williams, Sanaz Ahari, Yang Yang Zhang, Srinath Reddy Aaleti
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Patent number: 8510262Abstract: A computer system, method, and media for associating locations with ranked websites are provided. The computer system includes a search engine, a log database, and a location database that are employed to respond to search requests from users by returning appropriately ranked websites to the user. The websites are ranked using the location of the website and the location of the user to select websites to receive high ranks. Additionally, the search engine includes a correction feature that reevaluates locations for a website or user when a large number of obtained locations suggest a different location than a currently associated location for the website or the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Amit Aggarwal, Nitin Agrawal, Michael Maxwell Cameron, Nicholas Eric Craswell, Nikhil Bharat Dandekar, Tabreez Govani, Hugh Evan Williams