ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,889, issued on June 10, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Contextual estimation of link information gain" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich) and Pedro Gonnet Anders (Zurich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for determining an information gain score for one or more documents of interest to the user and present information from the documents based on the information gain score. An information gain score for a given document is indicative of additional information that is included in the document beyond information contained in documents that were previously viewed by the user. In som...