ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,847, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Transfer of refined query to different query responder" was invented by John W. Nicholson (Cary, N.C.), Daryl C. Cromer (Raleigh, N.C.), Howard Locker (Cary, N.C.) and Xiaohua Xu (Raleigh, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving a query from a user at a first query response system; creating, using the first query response system, a refined query by iteratively receiving, from the user, refinements to the query subsequent to responses provided by the first query response system; and tr...