ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,127, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Assistive browsing using context" was invented by Gokhan H. Bakir (Zurich), Behshad Behzadi (Freienbach, Switzerland) and Marcin M. Nowak-Przygodzki (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a query provided by a user and comprising one or more terms. Obtaining context data based on at least a portion of a first resource displayed to the user at a time that the query is received. Obtaining a revised query that is based on the query and the context da...