Jon Michael Buschman

US Patent:

20070239704, Oct 11, 2007

Filed:

Mar 31, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/394090

Inventors:

Eric Burns - Seattle WA, US
Jay Girotto - Kirkland WA, US
Jon Buschman - Seattle WA, US
Qiang Wu - Sammamish WA, US
Yue Liu - Issaquah WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707005000

Abstract:

A method and system to aggregate and present citations for disparate documents are provided. When the documents are similar to scholarly articles, the documents are further processed to extract citations associated with the document. The citations extracted from each document are utilized to generate a listing of citations that represents relationships between the documents. The content and relationships associated with the documents are displayed to provide a user with access to information for the disparate documents.

US Patent:

20080168045, Jul 10, 2008

Filed:

Jan 10, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/621736

Inventors:

Dzmitry Suponau - Bellevue WA, US
Eric L. Burns - Seattle WA, US
Harry Kaplanian - Mercer Island WA, US
Jay R. Girotto - Kirkland WA, US
Jon Michael Buschman - Seattle WA, US
Philip Ti-Fei Su - Kirkland WA, US
Yue Liu - Issaquah WA, US
Zarah Johnson-Morris - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707 5, 707E17119

Abstract:

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates generating a content rank that includes at least one quantitative measurement to ascertain the importance of a literary work and/or media. An interface component can receive data related to a query. A rank component can employ a content rank based on a quantitative measurement to ascertain an objective ranking of the queried content.

US Patent:

20080229828, Sep 25, 2008

Filed:

Mar 20, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/725633

Inventors:

Jon M. Buschman - Seattle WA, US
Yue Liu - Issaquah WA, US
Qiang Wu - Sammamish WA, US
Zhen Liu - Sammamish WA, US
Amir Padovitz - Redmond WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G01H 13/00

US Classification:

73579

Abstract:

The architecture utilizes the network effects of patents, journals, authors, institutions, and funding entities, for example, to establish an objective reputation factor. The reputation factor contributes to a higher perceived relevance as well as provides interesting new services that could be built on top. The algorithm takes into account not only the number of cited-by references for a certain paper, author, or institution, but can also generate a higher ranking for cross-disciplinary citations, citations establishing a new area of science, acknowledgement citations, and constantly-updated reputation factors of different important entities, such as co-authorship, institutional affiliation, and journal impact factor. Impact factors can be fed back into the system for consideration in generating the reputation factor.

US Patent:

20080282187, Nov 13, 2008

Filed:

May 7, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/800956

Inventors:

Jon Michael Buschman - Seattle WA, US
Yue Liu - Issaquah WA, US
Bongshin Lee - Issaquah WA, US
Mary Czerwinski - Woodinville WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 3/048

US Classification:

715784, 715781

Abstract:

When searching for academic or research publications, a user can be presented, not only with a linear listing of publications that may be relevant to the user's search terms, but the user can also be presented with a citation map representing a visual presentation of the interrelationships between a selected publication and the publications which cite to it, and the publications which are cited to by the selected publication. An initial amount of information associated with such a citation map can be provided concurrently with each search result. Additional information can be provided, and presented to the user, through user interaction with the visualization derived from the already provided metadata.

US Patent:

20070233685, Oct 4, 2007

Filed:

Mar 31, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/394098

Inventors:

Eric Burns - Seattle WA, US
Jay Girotto - Kirkland WA, US
Jon Buschman - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707009000

Abstract:

A system and method are provided for allowing authorized users to access search results containing protected content, and for indicating within a user interface which search results an affiliated institution has and does not have access to. The invention can be configured to identify which search results within a search results set are protected search results containing protected content versus search results that are freely available. The invention can associate the user with an institution that is authorized to access the protected search result and can allow the user to access the protected search result once the association has been verified.