ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,840, issued on May 20, was assigned to HIGHSPOT INC. (Seattle).
"Narrowing information search results for presentation to a user" was invented by Oliver Sharp (Seattle), David Wortendyke (Seattle), Scot Gellock (Seattle) and Robert Wahbe (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology provides systems and methods for filtering information based on a set of properties. The information consists of a set of items that the user is interacting with, such as documents, presentations, audio and video files, and the like. The properties can be specified by the user (by, for example, putting a set of items in lists and folder...