Daniel Clark Fain

8190601, May 29, 2012

May 22, 2009

12/471116

Sanaz Ahari - Kirkland WA, US
Xiaoxin Yin - Bothell WA, US
Farid Hosseini - Redmond WA, US
Sarthak Shah - Kirkland WA, US
Adam Troy - Redmond WA, US
Daniel C. Fain - Redmond WA, US
Brian MacDonald - Bellevue WA, US
Nikhil Dandekar - Seattle WA, US
Michael Cameron - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 7/00
G06F 17/30

707722, 707723, 707731

Computer-readable media and computerized methods for automatically organizing search results according to task groups are provided. The methods involve aggregating a gallery of entities (e. g. , search queries that share a common categorization) into a query class and assigning a dictionary (e. g. , list of terms that are drawn from various sources) to the query class. The task groups are identified from the list of terms within the dictionary. The process of identification includes analyzing patterns of user search behavior to select terms from the list of terms, which reflect popular user search intents, and ranking the selected terms based on predetermined parameters to produce an ordering. Based on the ordering, a set of the selected terms that are highest ranked are declared the task groups. The task groups are employed to arrange the search results on a UI display and to provide a consistent and intuitive format for refining a search.

20110191321, Aug 4, 2011

Feb 1, 2010

12/698115

KRISHNA GADE - REDMOND WA, US
ANDREY YEGOROV - REDMOND WA, US
JOANNA CHAN - REDWOOD CITY CA, US
DANIEL C. FAIN - REDMOND WA, US
SANAZ AHARI - BELLEVUE WA, US
NITIN AGRAWAL - REDMOND WA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

G06F 3/048
G06F 17/30
G06F 3/14
G06F 12/08

707709, 715760, 715205, 707769, 711118, 707E17014, 707E17108, 711E12017

Embodiments of the invention disclose an advertisement or segment of a webpage that displays suggested search queries as selectable links. Suggested queries may be based on content associated with the webpage, or the description of the webpage (such as a URL), or default suggestions. In one example, content of a page is crawled for terms that are mapped to suggested queries. Queries may be represented as textual links or multimedia images embedded in pages accessed over a network, and selection of a query may direct or enhance search engine traffic.

20200364281, Nov 19, 2020

Aug 6, 2020

16/986499

- San Jose CA, US
Justin Nicholas House - San Jose CA, US
Nish Parikh - Fremont CA, US
David Goldberg - Palo Alto CA, US
Daniel Fain - Saratoga CA, US
Stephen Neola - Jersey City NJ, US
Jonas Oscar Klink - White Plains NY, US

eBay Inc. - San Jose CA

G06F 16/9535
G06F 16/906
G06Q 30/06
G06F 16/9538
G06F 16/9038
G06F 16/338
G06F 16/21

In various example embodiments, a system and method for retrieving database records are presented. A method includes receiving an access request for database records, identifying a primary database record corresponding to the access request, and selecting a set of secondary database records corresponding to a portion of the access request. The method determines a set of differentiating elements within records of the set of secondary database records. Each differentiating element distinguishes at least one record of the set of secondary database records from one or more of the primary database record and a portion of the records included in the set of secondary database records. The method generates a formatted search interface including a set of selectable interface icons representing one or more differentiating elements and causes presentation of the formatted search interface at a client device associated with the access request.

20170322971, Nov 9, 2017

May 3, 2017

15/585986

- San Jose CA, US
Justin Nicholas House - San Jose CA, US
Nish Parikh - Fremont CA, US
David Goldberg - Palo Alto CA, US
Daniel Fain - Saratoga CA, US
Stephen Neola - Jersey City NJ, US
Jonas Oscar Klink - White Plains NY, US

G06F 17/30
G06F 17/30
G06F 3/0484
G06F 17/30
G06F 3/0481

In various example embodiments, a system and method for retrieving database records are presented. A method includes receiving an access request for database records, identifying a primary database record corresponding to the access request, and selecting a set of secondary database records corresponding to a portion of the access request. The method determines a set of differentiating elements within records of the set of secondary database records. Each differentiating element distinguishes at least one record of the set of secondary database records from one or more of the primary database record and a portion of the records included in the set of secondary database records. The method generates a formatted search interface including a set of selectable interface icons representing one or more differentiating elements and causes presentation of the formatted search interface at a client device associated with the access request.

20150161635, Jun 11, 2015

Dec 10, 2013

14/101491

- San Jose CA, US
Zhaohui Chen - Saratoga CA, US
Daniel Fain - Saratoga CA, US

EBAY INC. - SAN JOSE CA

G06Q 30/02

In an example embodiment, a pseudo product group for an item to be listed in an online marketplace having unstructured data is determined. Then, a fair market price for the item is determined using past data from listings in the pseudo product group. The fair market price may be used as a reference price in a curve of price elasticity versus price to obtain a price elasticity value. A price range may then be recommended to a user for the listing based upon the fair market price and the price elasticity value.