ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,056, issued on March 18, was assigned to Insight Direct USA Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Clustered metasearch" was invented by Cathy Snell (Durham, N.C.) and Dhairya Kothari (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clustered metasearch system receives a search query from a user. The system uses Natural Language Processing to identify an object of the search query and descriptors of the search query. The system sorts the search into an applicable realm based on the object of the search query. The system then conducts the search across a variety of search engines and collects root domains from the search results. Root domains within the ...