ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,888, issued on May 12, was assigned to IP.com I LLC (Fairport, N.Y.).
"Methods and system for determining, navigating, and presenting complex relationships in content" was invented by Wen Ruan (Boxborough, Mass.), Joseph Anthony Manico (Rochester, N.Y.), William Yurich Fowlkes (Pittsford, N.Y.) and Young No (West Henrietta, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to identifying related content and significance thereof with respect to some specified goal. Initial content is obtained based on a specified goal. Associated content is identified based on the semantics of the initial content and semantic-based tempo...