Patents by Inventor Yofay Kari Lee

Yofay Kari Lee 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).

  • Patent number: 8180790
    Abstract: Search macros suggestions are provided to refine a user's search. When a search query is received from an end user, one or more search macros are determined to be relevant to the search query. The search macros are then provided to the end user as suggestions for refining the user's search. In some instances, the end user may chose to select one of the suggested search macros. A search is then performed using the search query and the selected search macro to provide search results to the end user that may be more relevant to the user's search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gaurav Sareen, Raghavendra Vinayak Prabhu, Yofay Kari Lee
  • Publication number: 20110264736
    Abstract: A user device requests a web page from a web server of a third-party website, which is separate from a social networking system. The web server from the third-party website sends a markup language document for the requested web page to the user device which includes an instruction for a browser application running on the user device to incorporate information obtained from the social networking system within the web page. Based on the instruction in the received markup language document, the user device requests personalized content from the social networking system, which generates the requested personalized content based on social information about the user. The user device then renders the web page with the personalized content contained in a frame and displays the rendered web page and the frame to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2010
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Mark E. Zuckerberg, Ray C. He, Spencer G. Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Chaitanya Mishra, Austin Daniel Haugen, Xin Liu, Michael Steven Vernal
  • Publication number: 20110196855
    Abstract: Indexing and retrieving real time content in a social networking system is disclosed. A user-term index includes user-term partitions, each user-term partition comprising temporal databases. As a post is received from a user, a user identifier, a post identifier, and a post is extracted. An object store communicatively coupled to a temporal database for recently received content is queried to determine whether terms in the post has already been stored. A term identifier is stored in the user-term index with the user and post identifiers. A forward index stores the post by post identifier. Responsive to a search query, the user-term index is searched by the user's connections and the terms. A real time search engine compiles the results of the user-term index query and retrieves the stored posts from the forward index. The search results may then be ranked and cached before presentation to the searching user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Akhil Wable, Hong Yan, Spencer Ahrens, Yofay Kari Lee, Guizhen Yang
  • Publication number: 20100161583
    Abstract: Search macros suggestions are provided to refine a user's search. When a search query is received from an end user, one or more search macros are determined to be relevant to the search query. The search macros are then provided to the end user as suggestions for refining the user's search. In some instances, the end user may chose to select one of the suggested search macros. A search is then performed using the search query and the selected search macro to provide search results to the end user that may be more relevant to the user's search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2010
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: GAURAV SAREEN, RAGHAVENDRA VINAYAK PRABHU, YOFAY KARI LEE
  • Patent number: 7698344
    Abstract: Search macros suggestions are provided to refine a user's search. When a search query is received from an end user, one or more search macros are determined to be relevant to the search query. The search macros are then provided to the end user as suggestions for refining the user's search. In some instances, the end user may chose to select one of the suggested search macros. A search is then performed using the search query and the selected search macro to provide search results to the end user that may be more relevant to the user's search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gaurav Sareen, Raghavendra Vinayak Prabhu, Yofay Kari Lee
  • Publication number: 20080243819
    Abstract: Search macros suggestions are provided to refine a user's search. When a search query is received from an end user, one or more search macros are determined to be relevant to the search query. The search macros are then provided to the end user as suggestions for refining the user's search. In some instances, the end user may chose to select one of the suggested search macros. A search is then performed using the search query and the selected search macro to provide search results to the end user that may be more relevant to the user's search.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2007
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: GAURAV SAREEN, RAGHAVENDRA VINAYAK PRABHU, YOFAY KARI LEE