US Patent Issued to ELASTICSEARCH on Dec. 16 for "Controlling precision of searches" (Canadian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,164, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ELASTICSEARCH B.V. (Amsterdam).

"Controlling precision of searches" was invented by Quinlan J. Hoxie (San Francisco), Nick Chow (Vancouver, Canada) and Aurelien Foucret (Loos, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and systems for controlling precision of searches. An example method includes receiving, via a user interface associated with a search engine, user input indicating a search precision level, and setting, based on the search precision level, parameters of the search engine to cause the search engine to return, in a response to a search query, search results having ...