Patents by Inventor Vitor De Carvalho

Vitor De Carvalho 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: 20070112764
    Abstract: Extraction analysis techniques biased, in part, by query frequency information from a query log file and/or search engine cache are employed along with machine learning processes to determine candidate keywords and/or phrases of web documents. Web oriented features associated with the candidate keywords and/or phrases are also utilized to analyze the web documents. A keyword and/or phrase extraction mechanism can be utilized to score keywords and/or phrases in a web document and estimate a likelihood that the keywords and/or phrases are relevant, for example, in an advertising system and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2007
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Wen-tau Yih, Joshua Goodman, Vitor de Carvalho
  • Publication number: 20060218115
    Abstract: A computer-implemented implicit querying system comprises a scanning component that scans content of a document. An analysis component analyzes the scanned content and outputs a query based at least in part upon the analysis and frequency of use information associated with the query. The system can further comprise a weighting component that provides weights to text within the document based at least in part upon location of text within the document. The query can then be output to a user based at least in part upon the provided weights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2005
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joshua Goodman, Vitor De Carvalho, Kristin Bromm, Denise Hui