Patents by Inventor Wee Wah Alfian Tan

Wee Wah Alfian Tan 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).

  • Extraction of rich search information from index servers via an alternative asynchronous data path
    Patent number: 8306964
    Abstract: A search engine system is described herein that provides an alternative data path for collecting results provided by index servers. The alternative data path collects the results in a direct and asynchronous manner; this is in contrast to a synchronous path used to deliver search results to end users via one or more aggregator modules. An analysis system can use the alternative data path to collect a large amount of richly descriptive information regarding the performance of the search engine system, circumventing bottlenecks and other constraints that would otherwise be imposed by the synchronous data path. The analysis system can analyze the information collected from the index servers to improve the performance of the search engine system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yinzhe Yu, Qinghua Zou, Pei Pei, Gaurav Sareen, Wee Wah Alfian Tan
  • EXTRACTION OF RICH SEARCH INFORMATION FROM INDEX SERVERS VIA AN ALTERNATIVE ASYNCHRONOUS DATA PATH
    Publication number: 20120023093
    Abstract: A search engine system is described herein that provides an alternative data path for collecting results provided by index servers. The alternative data path collects the results in a direct and asynchronous manner; this is in contrast to a synchronous path used to deliver search results to end users via one or more aggregator modules. An analysis system can use the alternative data path to collect a large amount of richly descriptive information regarding the performance of the search engine system, circumventing bottlenecks and other constraints that would otherwise be imposed by the synchronous data path. The analysis system can analyze the information collected from the index servers to improve the performance of the search engine system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2010
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Yinzhe Yu, Qinghua Zou, Pei Pei, Gaurav Sareen, Wee Wah Alfian Tan