US Patent Issued to CANON on Oct. 7 for "Method, server, information processing apparatus, and storage medium for generating query character string" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,980, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Method, server, information processing apparatus, and storage medium for generating query character string" was invented by Tatsuya Hashimoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The information processing apparatus obtains a search result desired by a user by performing: receiving a first keyword selected by the user from among a plurality of keyword candidates and a second keyword input manually by the user; generating a query character string including a first synonym, which is generated by converting the first keyword, and the second keyword; and outputting the query cha...