Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20100241647
Filing Date: March 23, 2009Priority Date: March 23, 2008
Inventors: Alexandros Ntoulas, Heasoo Hwang, Lise C. Getoor, Stelios Paparizos, Hady Wirawan Lauw
Assignee(s): Microsoft Corporation
Current U.S. Classification: 707
View Prior Art for Claim 00001
Title Frontiers of WWW Research and Development - APWeb 2006: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006, Vol
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This is a chapter in a book that was suggested by someone else as prior art for this patent. I have not read it.
The chapter discusses mining a user's query log to provide better searches. (See 4.3 on p. 441).
Title Communications of the ACM
ISBN ISSN: 0001-0782
Description
If the claim is to the broad idea of using contextual information and previous searches of a particular user to better process a current query, then I believe that was well-known in the search community at least several years earlier. (Steven Weiner referencing this article)
Patent/Application # US20100161643
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Abstract: The subject matter disclosed herein relates to segmentation of interleaved query missions into a plurality of query chains.
Title Google Tests 'Personalized' Search
Description
Google offers a service that tailors a user's query results based on the user's previous searches. The free service is called Personalized Search.
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