Feng Pan

US Patent:

20130086509, Apr 4, 2013

Filed:

Sep 29, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/248261

Inventors:

ASHWIN SATYANARAYANA - SAMMAMISH WA, US
TABREEZ GOVANI - BELLEVUE WA, US
SAMIR SHIRAZ PRADHAN - BELLEVUE WA, US
GIRIDHAR KUMARAN - BOTHELL WA, US
XIN FU - SANTA CLARA CA, US
FENG PAN - REDMOND WA, US
NITIN AGRAWAL - REDMOND WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - REDMOND WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715781, 707759, 707E17141, 707E17137

Abstract:

Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices method of facilitating presentation of alternative query suggestions. The method includes referencing an initial query having a plurality of terms. A term(s) to remove from the initial query is identified, for example, based at least on a number of times the term(s) occur in previous queries. The initial query is modified by removing the term(s) from the initial query. Thereafter, the modified query is used to identify an alternative query suggestion(s) that includes at least one term that matches at least one term of the modified query.