US Patent Issued to Gracenote on June 17 for "User profile based on clustering tiered descriptors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,956, issued on June 17, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"User profile based on clustering tiered descriptors" was invented by Phillip Popp (Oakland, Calif.), Ching-Wei Chen (Oakland, Calif.), Peter C. DiMaria (Berkeley, Calif.) and Markus K. Cremer (Orinda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user of a network-based system may correspond to a user profile that describes the user. The user profile may describe the user using one or more descriptors of items that correspond to the user (e.g., items owned by the user, items liked by the user, or items rated by the user). In some situations, such a user profile may be char...