US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Sept. 29 for "Techniques for automatically inferring intents of search queries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,762, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for automatically inferring intents of search queries" was invented by Sudeep Das (San Francisco), Ivan Gennadievich Provalov (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Weidong Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yi Zhang (Hayward, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, an intent-based query processing application processes search queries. The intent-based query processing application computes lexical similarity scores between a search query and a set of entities. The intent-based query processing application computes entity relevance scores based ...