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US 2019/0318037 A1Published application
IoT Enhanced Search Results
AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsAbhineet MISHRA, Venkata KURUMADDALI
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Abstract
The discussion relates to providing more relevant search results to a user based upon information relating to IoT devices associated with the user. One example can receive search results for a search query associated with the user. The example can obtain entities from IoT devices associated with the user and rank the search results utilizing the entities from the IoT devices.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- an IoT entity component configured to obtain IoT device data from users and to supply the IoT device data to a knowledge index to identify entities in the IoT device data;
- storage that includes an IoT entity feeds index that includes the entities from the IoT device data associated with the users;
- and,
- an IoT enhanced ranker configured to receive search results for a search query entered by an individual user and to obtain the entities from the IoT device data associated with the individual user and to rank the search results utilizing the entities from the IoT device data associated with the individual user.
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A method, comprising:
- receiving search results for a search query associated with a user;
- obtaining entities from IoT devices associated with the user;
- and,
- ranking the search results utilizing the entities from the IoT devices.
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A method, comprising:
- comparing a first set of entities in search result documents produced for a user search query to a second set of entities associated with IoT devices of the user;
- and,
- ranking the search result documents based upon co-occurrence between the first set of entities and the second set of entities.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.