Microsoft patents search engine that fixes slow queries
Microsoft describes a system that identifies specific words in a search request that cause slow performance. It then adjusts the search terms to remove these bottlenecks, using a language model to improve the results shown to the user.
In the filing’s own words
Systems and methods for resolving a performance bottleneck of a query search to improve search results are provided. In particular, a computing device may receive a user search query from a user, generate query alteration candidates based on the user search query using an index-based language model, determine whether the user search query includes a bottleneck term that is likely to cause the performance bottleneck of the query search, wherein the bottleneck term includes one or more words or phrases, optimize, in response to determination that the user search query includes the bottleneck term, the query alteration candidates to resolve the performance bottleneck, update the index-based language model by updating confidence scores associated with the query alteration candidates, generate search results based on the optimized query alteration candidates, and provide the search results to the user.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1 - 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- BOTTLENECK AWARE QUERY ALTERATION FOR SEARCH
- Publication number
- US20260329858A1
- Application number
- 19431486
- Filed
- Dec 23, 2025
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
G06F 16/24534 Physics & computingG06F 16/9535 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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