ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,070, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Taxonomy-based document retrieval" was invented by Wendi Cui (Jersey City, N.J.), Damien J. Lopez (San Diego) and Colin P. Ryan (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving a query and applying a classifier to a hierarchical taxonomy and the query to output a query taxonomy array. Each of a number of taxonomy tags has an associated level in a hierarchical taxonomy. The query taxonomy array includes query tags selected, based on a term contained in the query, from the taxonomy tags. The query taxonomy array is compared to...