US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 3 for "Knowledge re-ranking techniques" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,785, issued on March 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Knowledge re-ranking techniques" was invented by Xu Zhong (Melbourne, Australia) and Aashna Devang Kanuga (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed herein for selecting document chunks that are most relevant to a query. The techniques include receiving a query and comparing a plurality of stored text passages to the query using a first similarity metric. Based on the comparison, a subset of the plurality of stored text passages that are most similar to the query are selected. A plurality of sentences from t...