ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,237, issued on July 21, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Listwise autocomplete ranking with position debias" was invented by Peng Shi (Shanghai), Canran Xu (Shanghai) and Xi Chen (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Listwise autocomplete ranking with position debias is described. A computing system can receive a user input indicative of a portion of a search query. The computing system can receive a set of candidate queries for an autocomplete list based on the portion of the search query. The computing system can generate a respective ranking score for each candidate query of the set of candidate queries by calcula...