US Patent Issued to Adobe on April 29 for "Facilitating efficient identification of relevant data" (Virginia, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,797, issued on April 29, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Facilitating efficient identification of relevant data" was invented by Wei Zhang (Great Falls, Va.) and Christopher Challis (Alpine, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides for facilitating efficient identification of relevant metrics. In one embodiment, a set of candidate metrics for which to determine relevance to a user is identified. For each candidate metric, a set of distribution parameters is determined, including a first distribution parameter based on implicit positive feedback associated with the metric and usage data associ...