US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Skill-centric entity embedding and ranking" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,557, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Skill-centric entity embedding and ranking" was invented by Ilya Dan Melamed (New York) and Rui Kou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments extract a key phrase from an online profile of a user of a professional social network (PSN) and identify a set of skills associated with the key phrase. A set of skill embeddings corresponding to the identified set of skills may be retrieved from a store of skill embeddings. The skill embeddings may be pre-created by a large language model (LLM). The retrieved skill embeddings may be ...