US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 9 for "Dynamically filtering search results using contextual user interaction data" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,898, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamically filtering search results using contextual user interaction data" was invented by Bernt Ivar Olsen-Kristiansen (Tromso, Norway), Jon Meling (Tromso, Norway), Bjornstein Lilleby (Tromso, Norway) and Steffen Viken Valvag (Tromso, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method filters search result content using user interaction data. Search result content, including search result entries, is presented. User interaction data is received that is indicative of a user's interactions with the presented search result content...