ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,054, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Content search based on correlating a user propensity with propensity of content providers" was invented by Charbak Chatterjee (West Bengal, India), Vijay Kumar Ananthapur Bache (Karnataka, India), Saon Sen Nandi (West Bengal, India) and Narendra Kunte (Maharashtra, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content providers are clustered based on attributes of the content providers to produce a plurality of clusters each having content providers with aligned attributes. A correlation between a user providing a search query and the clusters is det...