ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,900, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Pattern-based classification" was invented by Zhile Zou (Mountain View, Calif.) and Chong Luo (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving interaction data that indicates, for each given interaction among multiple interactions that occurred at a client device, (i) an event type an (ii) a delay period specifying an amount of time between the given event and a previous event that occurred prior to the given event, encoding each given interaction into an encoded interaction having a standardized format that is a combination of (i) t...