ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,662, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Dissimilar but relevant search engine results" was invented by Daniel David Miranda (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Jaiswal (San Jose, Calif.) and David Goldberg (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search engine is configured to return search results with increased diversity among the search results. When a query is received from a client device, items are identified as search results for the query and grouped into categories. The categories are also grouped into classes. A user interface is generated with items grouped together by category and categories g...