US Patent Issued to Elasticsearch on Dec. 23 for "Search query refinement using generated keyword triggers" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,115, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Elasticsearch B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Search query refinement using generated keyword triggers" was invented by Quinlan J. Hoxie (Lake Oswego, Ore.), David Harsha (San Francisco), Mark Hoy (Toronto), Sean Story (Nashville, Tenn.), Brian Stevenson (San Francisco) and Marshall Scorcio (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are systems and methods for automatic search query refinement. An example method commences with identifying a plurality of electronic sources of data content of an entity stored at different network-accessible locations. The content may be dynamically assigned fields...