ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,493, issued on May 19, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Parallel search result pipeline evaluations" was invented by Kyle Thomas Kral (Redmond, Wash.), Nitesh Prabhu (Seattle) and Austin Bradley Hodges (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed techniques run multiple indexing pipelines and multiple search pipelines on a local device. Search results are presented in a first ordering according to a default search pipeline using data generated by one or more of the indexing pipelines. Other orderings of search results generated by other search pipelines are similarly generated. A user sele...