13 Google search patents by P. Pandurang Nayak, Google Chief Scientist for Search. The patent record covers the query-revision and query-understanding stack from 2003-2015: integration of multiple query-revision models, confidence-scored revision, known-highly-ranked-queries borrowing, concept-context substitution, phrase-restricted synonyms, click-driven synonym identification, acronym expansion. Co-authored with David R. Bailey, Ben Gomes, Trystan Upstill, Kedar Dhamdhere, Thomas Strohmann. His neural-era contributions (RankBrain, BERT, MUM, DOJ testimony) are intentionally unpatented and live in blog posts and trial transcripts.
About the Pandu Nayak, Google Search Patents track
13 Google search patents by P. Pandurang Nayak, Google Chief Scientist for Search. The patent record covers the query-revision and query-understanding stack from 2003-2015: integration of multiple query-revision models, confidence-scored revision, known-highly-ranked-queries borrowing, concept-context substitution, phrase-restricted synonyms, click-driven synonym identification, acronym expansion. Co-authored with David R. Bailey, Ben Gomes, Trystan Upstill, Kedar Dhamdhere, Thomas Strohmann. His neural-era contributions (RankBrain, BERT, MUM, DOJ testimony) are intentionally unpatented and live in blog posts and trial transcripts.
Query Revision & Confidence Scoring
- Integration of Multiple Query Revision Models (US 7,565,345 · July 21, 2009)
- Estimating Confidence for Query Revision Models (US 7,617,205 · November 10, 2009)
- Estimating Confidence for Query Revision Models (2012) (US 8,140,524 · March 20, 2012)
- Estimating Confidence for Query Revision Models (2015) (US 9,069,841 · June 30, 2015)
- Query Revision Using Known Highly-Ranked Queries (US 7,870,147 · January 11, 2011)
- Query Revision Using Known Highly-Ranked Queries (2013) (US 8,375,049 · February 12, 2013)
- Query Revision Using Known Highly-Ranked Queries (app 2011) (US App 2011/0060736 · March 10, 2011)
Query Understanding & Substitution
- Using Concepts as Contexts for Query Term Substitutions (US 9,104,750 · August 11, 2015)
- Phrase Restricted Substitute Terms (US App 2015/0205866 · July 23, 2015)
- Synonym Identification Based on Selected Search Result (US App 2014/0358904 · December 4, 2014)
- Identification of Acronym Expansions (US App 2014/0344263 · November 20, 2014)
Notebook & Data Access
- Managing and Accessing Data in Web Notebooks (US 8,676,797 · March 18, 2014)
- Managing and Accessing Data in Web Notebooks (app 2007) (US App 2007/0266011 · November 15, 2007)
Why this inventor matters
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