Patents by Inventor Xavier Legros
Xavier Legros 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: 10990632Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Publication number: 20190034533Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Patent number: 10108710Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Patent number: 9773045Abstract: Search results may include both objective results and person results. In one example, a search query is evaluated to determine whether it is the type of query that a user might want to ask to a friend. If the query is of such a type, then the search engine may examine a social graph to determine which friends of the user who entered the query may have information that is relevant to answering the query. If such friends exist, then the friends may be displayed along with objective search results, along with an explanation of each friend's relevance to the query. Clicking on a person in the results may cause a conversation to be initiated with that person, thereby allowing the user who entered the query to ask his or her friend about the subject of the query.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2013Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Sandy Wong, Wei Mu, Jun Yin, Rahul Nair, Simon King, Srinivasan Badrinarayanan, Xavier Legros, Michael Ching, Kevin Haas, Shubha Nabar
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Publication number: 20150169772Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for responding to search queries from a computer user with personalized search results are presented. A user vector is generated for a user. The user vector is generated by repeatedly accessing a plurality of network sites to obtain user-generated content, and updating the user vector according to the user-generated content. Moreover, a plurality of search results is identified in response to a query. Each of the search results is associated with a score. A user vector is obtained and the scores of the search results are weighted. A subset of the search results having favorable scores is selected and a search results page is generated from the subset of search results. The generated search results page is returned in response to the search query.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2013Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Omar Alonso, Xavier Legros, Kevin Lee Haas
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Patent number: 9020970Abstract: In one example embodiment, a code segment may be embedded in a web page by a web page publisher, and the code segment may be executed at least in part by a user computing platform. Information related to one or more web applications may be provided to the user computing platform at least in part in response to the user computing platform executing the code segment.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2008Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Maxwell R. Engel, Justin Cody Simms, Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Wade Chambers, Xavier Legros
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Patent number: 8782033Abstract: The present invention outlines a genuine entity following system that also addresses data source limitation. When reviewing entity-related objects in web content, a web user designates one or more entities to follow in real time. More particularly, the present invention is directed through strategic deployment of a dynamic crawler upon selection of a “follow” pointer over an object in a web browser such that a web user can automatically designate entities to be followed and receive alerts at predetermined temporal intervals when new information regarding such designated entities becomes available. A web entity engine of the present invention is designed to discover trending entities at any given time while generating output activity (i.e., signal) streams for this entity.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2010Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Zhaowei Jiang, Xavier Legros, Ronald H. Jones, Jr., Ryan Panchadsaram
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Publication number: 20140181101Abstract: Search results may include both objective results and person results. In one example, a search query is evaluated to determine whether it is the type of query that a user might want to ask to a friend. If the query is of such a type, then the search engine may examine a social graph to determine which friends of the user who entered the query may have information that is relevant to answering the query. If such friends exist, then the friends may be displayed along with objective search results, along with an explanation of each friend's relevance to the query. Clicking on a person in the results may cause a conversation to be initiated with that person, thereby allowing the user who entered the query to ask his or her friend about the subject of the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2013Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sandy Wong, Wei Mu, Jun Yin, Rahul Nair, Simon King, Srinivasan Badrinarayanan, Xavier Legros, Michael Ching, Kevin Haas, Shubha Nabar
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Publication number: 20140136504Abstract: Search results can include, not only responsive content, typically in the form of documents, but can also include information regarding responsive entities, including tasks relevant to those entities, and can include identifications of individuals from whom additional information can be obtained, or who are otherwise relevant to the search. An association between entities and documents referencing those entities is identified and maintained. Documents responsive to a user's search query are identified utilizing existing algorithmic mechanisms and such identified responsive documents are referenced to determine whether they are associated with one or more entities. Additionally, a people/query mapping is maintained associating individual people with specific queries. User actions directed to one or more people in response to a query are utilized as a feedback loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2012Publication date: May 15, 2014Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Heung Yeung Shum, Derrick Leslie Connell, Xavier Legros, Kevin L. Haas, Kang Li
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Patent number: 8538960Abstract: Search results may include both objective results and person results. In one example, a search query is evaluated to determine whether it is the type of query that a user might want to ask to a friend. If the query is of such a type, then the search engine may examine a social graph to determine which friends of the user who entered the query may have information that is relevant to answering the query. If such friends exist, then the friends may be displayed along with objective search results, along with an explanation of each friend's relevance to the query. Clicking on a person in the results may cause a conversation to be initiated with that person, thereby allowing the user who entered the query to ask his or her friend about the subject of the query.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: September 17, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sandy Wong, Wei Mu, Jun Yin, Rahul Nair, Simon King, Srinivasan Badrinarayanan, Xavier Legros, Michael Ching, Kevin Haas, Shubha Nabar
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Publication number: 20130036114Abstract: Search results may include both objective results and person results. In one example, a search query is evaluated to determine whether it is the type of query that a user might want to ask to a friend. If the query is of such a type, then the search engine may examine a social graph to determine which friends of the user who entered the query may have information that is relevant to answering the query. If such friends exist, then the friends may be displayed along with objective search results, along with an explanation of each friend's relevance to the query. Clicking on a person in the results may cause a conversation to be initiated with that person, thereby allowing the user who entered the query to ask his or her friend about the subject of the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Sandy Wong, Wei Mu, Jun Yin, Rahul Nair, Simon King, Srinivasan Badrinarayanan, Xavier Legros, Michael Ching, Kevin Haas, Shubha Nabar
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Patent number: 8209384Abstract: A system for managing an instant messaging conversation in a persistent context is provided. The system has an archiving feature for convenient access to the conversation, even after the conversation has ceased.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Allen Tom, Adrien Cahen, Bryce Glass, Xavier Legros
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Publication number: 20120143845Abstract: The present invention outlines a genuine entity following system that also addresses data source limitation. When reviewing entity-related objects in web content, a web user designates one or more entities to follow in real time. More particularly, the present invention is directed through strategic deployment of a dynamic crawler upon selection of a “follow” pointer over an object in a web browser such that a web user can automatically designate entities to be followed and receive alerts at predetermined temporal intervals when new information regarding such designated entities becomes available. A web entity engine of the present invention is designed to discover trending entities at any given time while generating output activity (i.e., signal) streams for this entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2010Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Zhaowei Jiang, Xavier Legros, Ronald H. Jones, JR., Ryan Panchadsaram
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Publication number: 20100057701Abstract: In one example embodiment, a code segment may be embedded in a web page by a web page publisher, and the code segment may be executed at least in part by a user computing platform. Information related to one or more web applications may be provided to the user computing platform at least in part in response to the user computing platform executing the code segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2008Publication date: March 4, 2010Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Maxwell R. Engel, Justin Cody Simms, Zhaowei Charlie Jiang, Wade Chambers, Xavier Legros
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Publication number: 20090106376Abstract: A system for managing an instant messaging conversation in a persistent context is provided. The system has an archiving feature for convenient access to the conversation, even after the conversation has ceased.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2007Publication date: April 23, 2009Inventors: Allen Tom, Adrien Cahen, Bryce Glass, Xavier Legros
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Patent number: 5989561Abstract: Attenuated recombinant viruses containing DNA encoding a calicivirus antigen such as a RHDV antigen, e.g., a capsid gene, as well as methods and compositions employing the viruses, expression products therefrom, and antibodies generated from the viruses or expression products, are disclosed and claimed. The recombinant viruses can be NYVAC or ALVAC recombinant viruses. The recombinant viruses and gene products therefrom and antibodies generated by the viruses and gene products have several preventive, therapeutic and diagnostic uses. The DNA from the viruses can be used for probes or for primers.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1995Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Virogenetics CorporationInventors: Enzo Paoletti, Laurent Fischer, Francois-Xavier Legros