ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,016, issued on Sept. 2.
"Systems and methods for providing expert thread search results" was invented by Jeffrey D. Brandstetter (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for providing search results. An expert search thread associated with a search term is received. A first query from a first user based on the search term is received, and a set of results to the first query is provided, where the set of results includes the expert search thread. A credibility score is determined for the expert search thread. A second query is received from a second user based on the search term. A placement of th...