Generating and presenting lateral concepts

US8868534B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Viswanath Vadlamani · Redmond, US
• Munirathnam Srikanth · Redmond, US
• Phani Vaddadi · Issaquah, US
• Abhinai Srivastava · Palo Alto, US
• Tarek Najm · Kirkland, US
• Rajeev Prasad · Bothell, US
• Arungunram C. Surendran · Sammamish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 5, 2010
• Grant date: Oct 21, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 18, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC —): General

Abstract

Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for generating lateral concepts are provided. The system includes a search engine to receive user queries, a storage to store content and its associated categories, and a lateral concept generator. The lateral concept generator is connected to both the search engine and storage. The lateral concept generator selects lateral concepts from categories associated with the content based on similarity scores for the stored content.