Inventors:
- Redmond WA, US
FNU SADHIKA - Bellevue WA, US
Jingtian JIANG - Sammamish WA, US
Byungki BYUN - Issaquah WA, US
Rajkiran PANUGANTI - Bothell WA, US
Philippe FAVRE - Bellevue WA, US
Omar Z. KHAN - Clyde Hill WA, US
Ankur GUPTA - Kirkland WA, US
Ravi K. BIKKULA - Sammamish WA, US
Guo MEI - Lynwood WA, US
Carol Kumar Mekala - Woodinville WA, US
Jeremy Michael Grubaugh - Kirkland WA, US
Chad Michael Roberts - Snohomish WA, US
Honghao Qiu - Issaquah WA, US
Malik Mehdi Pradhan - Kirkland WA, US
Anuja Milind Joshi - Pleasanton CA, US
Rigoberto Saenz Imbacuan - Bogota, CO
Krishn Ramesh - Hamilton, CA
Adarsh Sridhar - Issaquah WA, US
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC - Redmond WA
International Classification:
G06F 16/9035
G06F 16/903
Abstract:
The present application describes a system and method for searching for content items in an application executing on a computing device. In order to increase the efficiency of the search, the present disclosure provides a refiner that is used to filter or otherwise refine search results. The refiner is user-specific and/or tenant/entity-specific. The refiner may be based on long-term aggregated data and/or contextual information associated with the user.