US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 29 for "Targeted crowd sourcing for metadata management across data sets" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,690, issued on July 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Targeted crowd sourcing for metadata management across data sets" was invented by Robert Woods Jr. (Plano, Texas) and Mark D. Austin (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a memory operable to store a predictive model; a first processor communicatively coupled to the memory, the first processor operable to execute the predictive model to perform operations including generating knowledge score metrics based on a set of attributes for individuals included in a specified population, where the knowledge score metrics quantify a pr...