US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Bottleneck aware query alteration for search" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,350, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Bottleneck aware query alteration for search" was invented by Yi-Cheng Pan (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for resolving a performance bottleneck of a query search to improve search results are provided. In particular, a computing device may receive a user search query from a user, generate query alteration candidates based on the user search query using an index-based language model, determine whether the user search query includes a bottleneck term that is likely to cause the performance bottleneck of th...