ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,916, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Enhanced search autocompletion framework" was invented by Liwen You (San Jose, Calif.) and V Divya Bhargavi (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are disclosed for determining relevant search query autocompletions for presentation to a user that has entered a prefix into a search application interface. A target search space represented as a knowledge graph may be searched to generate a subgraph of nodes representing autocompletion candidates that correspond to the prefix. Further historical and/or interaction data associated with t...