US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Optimistic facet set selection for dynamic faceted search" (New Jersey, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,513, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimistic facet set selection for dynamic faceted search" was invented by Michael Robert Glass (Bayonne, N.J.), Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury (Woodside, N.Y.) and Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining an initial rank and a probability of relevance of each of a retrieved plurality of electronic documents relevant to a query. For each of a plurality of candidate facets, determine a revised rank for each of the retrieved plurality of electronic documents relevant to the query. Selecting, for each o...