US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 2 for "Clipboard based search term prediction" (American, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,028, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Clipboard based search term prediction" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Shikhar Kwatra (San Jose, Calif.), Iranna Dharmaraya Ankad (Bengaluru, India) and Utpal Mangla (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using a probability distribution and a search result history, a probability of selecting a specified number of relevant samples and a specified number of irrelevant samples from a set of contents is computed, each content in the set of contents comprising a content copied to a first system clipboard of a first device. Using...