ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,333, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Actively guided content recommendation" was invented by Hooman Mahyar (Mercer Island, Wash.), Nikhil Vijay Kajale (Sammamish, Wash.), Arjun Cholkar (Bothell, Wash.), Rafael Soltanovich (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Hani Suleiman (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are example systems and methods generally directed to systems and methods for a real-time content recommendation service employing active guidance to facilitate efficient and effective recommendations of content to a user. A plurality of characteristic information associated with conte...