SUPPLEMENTING SEARCH RESULTS WITH KEYWORDS DERIVED THEREFROM

• US 20120166415A1
• Filed: 12/23/2010
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Marcjan, Cezary, MacLaurin, Matthew Bret, Lewallen, James Henry, Newman, Todd Daniel, Taniguchi, David Shigeru
• Application Number:
  US12/977,100
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166415A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/711
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation

Abstract

Embodiments are provided for creating a personalized search index and supplementing searches with an additional set of keywords. A first set of keywords is received from a user. A first index associated with the user is searched using the first set of keywords to generate a first set of search results. The first index includes content identified by the user. A second set of keywords is defined based on the first set of search results. A second index is searched using the second set of keywords to generate a second set of search results. At least a portion of the first and second sets of search results is provided to the user. Some embodiments are implemented as a cloud computing service.

Claims

1. A system for providing context for search results, said system comprising:

a memory area associated with a computing device, said memory area storing a first index associated with a user; and

a processor programmed to;

scan content associated with the user to derive data for inclusion in the first index stored in the memory area;

generate the first index based on the derived data;

search the first index based on a first set of keywords to generate a first set of search results;

define a second set of keywords based on the generated first set of search results;

search a second index based on the defined second set of keywords to generate a second set of search results, wherein said second index is associated with at least one other user; and

provide for display to the user at least a portion of the first set of search results and at least a portion of the second set of search results.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is programmed to scan content including one or more of the following:

a social networking feed, a content feed, contact data, an electronic mail message, a text message, a web page, user browsing history, and user interaction data.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to receive the first set of keywords from the user.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further programmed to receive identification from the user of one or more of documents for inclusion in the first index.

5. The system of claim 1, further comprising means for obtaining context for the first set of search results by deriving the second set of keywords therefrom and generating the second set of search results.

6. The system of claim 1, further comprising means for supplementing search results from a personal search index with search results from a public search index.

7. A method comprising:

receiving a first set of search criteria from a user;

searching, by a computing device, a first index based on the received first set of search criteria to generate a first set of search results, wherein said first index is associated with the user and includes documents identified by the user;

defining a second set of search criteria based on the generated first set of search results;

searching, by a computing device, a second index based on the defined second set of search criteria to generate a second set of search results, wherein said second index is associated with at least one other user; and

providing to the user at least a portion of the first set of search results and at least a portion of the second set of search results.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein providing to the user at least a portion of the first set of search results and at least a portion of the second set of search results comprises providing, after said searching the first index and before said searching the second index, at least a portion of the first set of search results to the user.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising monitoring interaction by the user with the provided portion of the first set of search results, and wherein defining the second set of search criteria includes defining the second set of search criteria based at least in part on the monitored interaction.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein providing to the user at least a portion of the first set of search results and at least a portion of the second set of search results comprises displaying to the user at least a portion of the first set of search results and at least a portion of the second set of search results.

11. The method of claim 7, further comprising analyzing a document of the user to derive data for inclusion in the first set of search criteria.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein defining the second set of search criteria comprises:

performing a trending analysis to the first set of search results;

defining the second set of search criteria based at least in part on data derived from the performed trending analysis.

13. The method of claim 7, wherein the first set of search results comprises a plurality of items, and wherein defining the second set of search criteria comprises identifying one or more keywords from each of the items.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the second set of search results comprises a plurality of items each corresponding to at least one of the plurality of items in the first set of search results.

15. The method of claim 7, wherein the first set of search results comprises a plurality of items each having a date associated therewith, further comprising selecting a subset of the items based on the date, and wherein defining the second set of search criteria comprises identifying one or more keywords from the selected subset of the items.

16. The method of claim 7, wherein providing to the user at least a portion of the first set of search results and at least a portion of the second set of search results comprises providing at least a portion of the second set of search results in response to the user hovering over one or more items in the provided first set of search results.

17. One or more computer-readable media having computer-executable components, said components comprising:

a content ingestion component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to generate a first index from data associated with a user;

a communications interface component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to receive a first set of keywords from the user;

a private search engine component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to search, based on the first set of keywords received by the communications interface component, the first index generated by the content ingestion component to produce a first set of search results;

a keyword generator component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to define a second set of keywords based on the first set of search results generated by the private search engine component; and

a public search engine component that when executed by at least one processor causes the at least one processor to search a second index based on the second set of keywords defined by the keyword generator component to generate a second set of search results, wherein said second index is associated with at least one other user, wherein the communications interface component further provides to the user at least a portion of the first set of search results and at least a portion of the second set of search results.

18. The computer-readable media of claim 17, wherein at least a portion of the data associated with the user is stored by a computing device of the user, and wherein the content ingestion component is executed by a cloud computing service.

19. The computer-readable media of claim 17, wherein the first set of search results comprises a plurality of items, and wherein the keyword generator component defines the second set of keywords by identifying one or more keywords from each of the items.

20. The computer-readable media of claim 17, wherein the first set of search results comprises a plurality of items, and wherein the public search engine component generates the second set of search results by generating search results corresponding to one or more of the plurality of items.