USING JOINT COMMUNICATION AND SEARCH DATA

• US 20080306935A1
• Filed: 06/11/2007
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Singla, Parag, Richardson, Matthew R.
• Granted Patent: US 8,150,868 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/5
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/52 for supporting social networking services

Abstract

Conventionally, there are communities of individuals who perform Internet searches and communities of individuals who utilized Internet communications. While there is commonly a large amount of overlap between the two communities, there is little interaction between the two communities. Internet searches can be used to recommend interesting people to a user. Furthermore, Internet communications can be used to recommend content that is likely to be of interest to the user. In addition, previously engaged communications or searches can be used to disambiguate terms in a subsequent search.

Claims

1. A system for proposing content to a user, comprising:

a receiver component that obtains information concerning at least one communication engaged in by a user with another user; and

a suggestion component that recommends content the user should appreciate based on at least one communication engaged in by the user.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising a find component that gathers content related to at least one communication engaged in by the user, wherein the suggestion component recommends at least some of the content gathered by the find component.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a geographical determination component that obtains geographical characteristics of at least some information obtained by the receiver component.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one communication engaged in by the user with another user employed by the suggestion component in content recommendation is a real-time communication.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising a supplemental information capturer that gathers characteristic information in regards to the user.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising a storage component that holds a record that relates to recommended content.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising a text analyzer that makes at least one inference or at least one determination or both from contents of at least one communication engaged in by a user.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising an advertisement component that presents promotion information related to the recommendation or related to the communication engaged in by a user or both.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one communication utilized by suggestion component is at least in part a real-time text communication.

10. A method, comprising:

associating at least part of a query from a user with information pertaining to at least one previous communication with another user; and

determining from the association a likely meaning of at least part of the query from the user.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising obtaining user reaction to the likely meaning of at least part of the query.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising analyzing information to determine the topic of at least one previous communication or at least one previous query or both.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising storing information relating to at least one previous communication or at least one previous query or both.

14. The method of claim 10, further comprising receiving information related to at least part of a query from a user.

15. The method of claim 10, further comprising transmitting the likely meaning of at least part of the query.

16. A system for recommending a party to a user, comprising:

means for proposing a party a user should communicate with based on at least one search performed by the user; and

means for transmitting a proposal from the means for proposing to the user.

17. The system of claim 16, further comprising a means for receiving information concerning at least one interpersonal communication engaged in by the user.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising a means for proposing content the user should appreciate based on at least one interpersonal communication engaged in by the user.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising means for determining perspective of at least one term of at least one search performed by the user.

20. The system of claim 16, further comprising means for presenting advertisement based at least in part off at least one search performed by the user or based in part off the recommendation or based off at least part of both.