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US 8,805,833 B2Granted
Enhancing personal data search with information from social networks
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSuman Kumar Nath, Douglas Christopher Burger
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AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsSuman Kumar Nath, Douglas Christopher Burger
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The personal data search technique uses data input by users for a given user's personal data on a social networking site to enrich the given user's personal data. The technique annotates personal data stored on a personal computing device or in a computing cloud with data obtained from social networking sites (for example, tags, comments, likes/dislikes and so forth) provided by friends/other users in the given user's social network or networks. Such annotations can later are used by search engine to enhance the search functionality and/or to improve the ranking of search results. Since the data is entered by actual human users it is very accurate and since the data is already readily available on social networks the cost to obtain it is very inexpensive.
A computer-implemented process for annotating personal data, comprising:
A computer-implemented process for searching for personal data stored on a user's computing device, comprising:
A system for annotating personal data, comprising using two or more computing devices in a computing cloud, further comprising at least one processor comprising modules to:
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