ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,516, issued on April 22, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).
"Faceted navigation" was invented by Venkata Goutham Simhadri (Atlanta), Janani Balaji (Cumming, Ga.), Jeyaprakash Singarayar (Smyrna, Ga.), Olga Stolpovskaia (Marietta, Ga.) and Suhail Shaikh (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes extracting a set of candidate keywords from clickstream data and natural language processing of product text for a plurality of search queries. The set of candidate keywords are filtered based on the clickstream data. The set of candidate keywords as filtered are ranked based on the clickstream data. The ...