ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,857, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Recommending aggregate questions in a conversational data exploration" was invented by Ritwik Chaudhuri (Bangalore, India), Rajmohan Chandrahasan (Perunagar, India), Kirushikesh DB (Salem, India) and Arvind Agarwal (Delhi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for exploring interesting data patterns in structured tables through recommending aggregate questions in a conversational data exploration. Specially, interesting features and operators are selected that are used to frame aggreg...