US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on April 14 for "Method and system for online user profiling" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,440, issued on April 14, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Va.).

"Method and system for online user profiling" was invented by Xin Fan (Beijing), Liang Wang (Beijing) and Hao Zheng (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to online user profiling. In one example, content associated with a first user of a social media network is obtained. From the content associated with the first user, a first link to a first piece of content is identified. A second user of the social media network associated with the first user is determined in the context of the social media network. From content associ...