US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on March 3 for "Dynamically suppressing query answers in search" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,771, issued on March 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamically suppressing query answers in search" was invented by Zicheng Huang (Bothell, Wash.), Mridu Baldevraj Narang (Redmond, Wash.), Ling Li (Bellevue, Wash.) and Guihong Cao (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining whether to dynamically suppress a candidate query answer designated for inclusion in search results includes instantiating a plurality of filtering rules for assessing suppression of a candidate query answer. The filtering rules include one or both of a pattern rule and a site rule. The metho...