ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,156, issued on April 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Information retrieval method, related system, and storage medium" was invented by Xinyu Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Ke Zhan (Shenzhen, China), Lan Luo (Hangzhou, China), Chengzhen Fu (Shenzhen, China) and Enrui Hu (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information retrieval method includes obtaining Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents based on a retrieval text query and Ki ith-hop candidate documents; obtaining a score of each candidate document in the Mi (i+1)th-hop candidate documents; obtaining, based on a score of a candidate documen...