Generating and presenting lateral concepts

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United States of America

PATENT NO 8868534
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12700980

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Systems, methods, and computer-storage media for generating lateral concepts are provided. The system includes a search engine to receive user queries, a storage to store content and its associated categories, and a lateral concept generator. The lateral concept generator is connected to both the search engine and storage. The lateral concept generator selects lateral concepts from categories associated with the content based on similarity scores for the stored content.

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  • MICROSOFT CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Najm, Tarek Kirkland, US 61 2924
Prasad, Rajeev Bothwell, US 28 1274
Srikanth, Munirathnam Redmond, US 13 598
Srivastava, Abhinai Seattle, US 31 526
Surendran, Arungunram Chandrasekaran Sammamish, US 13 395
Vaddadi, Phani Issaquah, US 17 399
Vadlamani, Viswanath Redmond, US 40 997

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