ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,208, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).
"Responsive category prediction for user queries" was invented by Ali Ahmadvand (Atlanta), Surya Kallumadi (Atlanta) and Faizan Javed (Atlanta).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a category responsive to a user query is disclosed. The method includes receiving a training data set comprising a plurality of data pairs, each data pair including: (i) a query; and (ii) an associated one or more categories that are responsive to the query, wherein the one or more categories in the training data set defines a plurality of categories. The ...