ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,531, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Techniques for ranking relevant content" was invented by Zhengwei Bai (Milpitas, Calif.), Alessandro Moschitti (Playa del Rey, Calif.) and Danielle Class (Ipswich, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for evaluating content based on heterogenous features (e.g., numerical and semantic features) are described. Content candidates (e.g., points of interest, events, entertainment, products, etc.) may be retrieved based on a potential relevance to a user input. A system may process the content candidate and the user input to extract numerical and semantic...