US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Ordering search results based on a knowledge level of a user performing the search" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,402, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ordering search results based on a knowledge level of a user performing the search" was invented by James E. Bostick (Cedar Park, Texas), John M. Ganci Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Craig M. Trim (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for ranking search results according to a knowledge level of a user are provided. A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, a search query from a user via a user computer device; determining, by the computing device, a p...