US Patent Issued on Sept. 8 for "Ranking of content based on implied relationships" (California, Texas, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,852, issued on Sept. 8.

"Ranking of content based on implied relationships" was invented by Xiaoyuan Goodman Gu (San Jose, Calif.), Yuan Yen Tai (Pleasanton, Calif.), Moliang Zhou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Dayvid Victor Rodrigues de Oliveira (Round Rock, Texas), Brian Knott (New York City, N.Y.), Jin Cao (Ardsley, N.Y.) and Jia Huang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology has the ability to establish connections between content that do not have direct or explicit relationships. Implicit influence relationships can be established from user download sequence data, campaign data with keyword targeting,...