Patents by Inventor TIMOTHY CHARLES HOAD

TIMOTHY CHARLES HOAD 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).

  • Publication number: 20120059838
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate providing entity-specific content to a user in response to a search request. A search request is received from a user and determined to be related to an entity. Domains associated with the entity are also identified. The search service identifies a set of potential answers and uses the potential answers to generate a set of reformulation queries, which are used to query answer services. Answers returned by the answer services are ranked and bound to an entity card, which is subjected to a quorum checking process that facilitates optimization of the use of allocated screen real estate associated with the entity card. A representation of the entity card is presented on a search-results page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: ALEC JOHN BERNTSON, NITIN AGRAWAL, SONG ZHOU, YATHARTH SARAF, TARUN JOSHI, KIERAN RICHARD MCDONALD, YOHANNES TSEGAY, NIPOON MALHOTRA, MUHAMMAD AATIF AWAN, SANAZ AHARI, TIMOTHY CHARLES HOAD