US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 29 for "Hybrid database interface with intent expansion" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,790, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Hybrid database interface with intent expansion" was invented by Karina Elayne Kervin (Sacramento, Calif.), Manish Kesarwani (Bengaluru, India), Satyajeet Raje (White Plains, N.Y.) and Nergal Issaie (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes generating an intent string representative of a user's intention based on an input string from the user. The embodiment generates a search string that includes text from the input string and text from the intent string, and then executes a text-based query and an ontology-...