Microsoft patents shared search engine for multiple apps
Microsoft describes a system where a single backend search engine handles queries for many different applications. It uses a router to send user searches and location data to specific builders that create tailored search requests, then displays the results in a format suited to each app.
In the filing’s own words
Systems and methods are provided for implementing adaptable embedded search engine functionality. In an aspect, a shared SERP system receives a user search query from a first search utility among a plurality of search utilities, which is associated with corresponding apps that are different from each other. A router of the shared SERP system provides the user search query and location information to a first query builder among one or more query builders of the shared SERP system. The first query builder constructs a query request corresponding to the user search query, based on the provided user search query and location information. A first query executor among one or more query executors of the shared SERP system executes the query request to produce search results. A component renderer of the shared SERP system renders one or more UX components within the first SERP, based on the search results.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1.- 20. (canceled)
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- ADAPTABLE EMBEDDED SEARCH ENGINE FUNCTIONALITY
- Publication number
- US20260329957A1
- Application number
- 19634873
- Filed
- Mar 31, 2026
- Published
- Oct 22, 2026
- Inventors
- 16
- Claims
- 21
Classified under
G06F 16/9537 Physics & computingG06F 16/9532 Physics & computingG06F 16/955 Physics & computingMore from Microsoft in AI & software
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