US Patent Issued to Billups on March 25 for "Machine-based prediction of visitation caused by viewing" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,314, issued on March 25, was assigned to Billups LLC (Lake Oswego, Ore.).

"Machine-based prediction of visitation caused by viewing" was invented by Shawn Spooner (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "For machine-based prediction of visitation, a machine-learned network embeds the visitation and metadata information. Since the trace data used to show access may be sparse, another machine-learned network completes the route data. Another machine-learned network recommends effectiveness of content based on routes, the graph, metadata, and/or other information. The recommendation is based on training using counterfactual and/...