ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,939, issued on May 6, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Discovering alternate online service providers" was invented by Jared Zimmerman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Heather Campbell (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described that include determining an intent from an intent library that matches a received query, identifying, based on the intent, at least one mini-app from a first provider and at least one mini-app from a second provider, ranking the identified mini-apps, and triggering rendering of search results, the search results including at least a first ranked mini-app in a...