US Patent Issued to SAP on Oct. 14 for "Solving sparse data problems in a recommendation system with cold start" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,985, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Solving sparse data problems in a recommendation system with cold start" was invented by Nick Pendar (San Ramon, Calif.) and Arjun Rao (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recommendation services typically struggle with sparse data scenarios. A cold generated item start technique can find a warm generated item as a suitable proxy in a matrix representing co-occurrences of generated items. Embeddings can be used to determine distance between items. The technologies are useful for providing recommendations even in scenarios involving little or no transact...