US 11,960,554 B2
Unsupervised entity and intent identification for improved search query relevance
Gautam Prasad, Hyderabad (IN); Varun Appaswami, Hyderabad (IN); and Bhanu Teja Chunduri, Hyderabad (IN)
Assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed by Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US)
Filed on Jul. 3, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/367,360.
Application 17/367,360 is a continuation of application No. 16/389,825, filed on Apr. 19, 2019, granted, now 11,068,554.
Prior Publication US 2022/0043871 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 16/2457 (2019.01); G06F 16/9032 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/9535 (2019.01) [G06F 16/24578 (2019.01); G06F 16/90328 (2019.01); G06F 16/9038 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a search engine for generating a query suggestion, the method comprising:
receiving a query issued by a user of a client computing device, where the query includes a keyword;
retrieving, by the search engine, search results based upon the query, where the search results include titles that are to be presented on a search engine results page (SERP), and further where several titles of several of the search results include the keyword;
identifying a number of times that the keyword occurs in the titles of the search results;
extracting the keyword from the query based upon the number of occurrences of the keyword in the titles of the search results;
identifying the query suggestion based upon the keyword extracted from the query; and
upon identifying the query suggestion, providing the query suggestion to the client computing device for presentment to the user.