ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,747, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for double level ranking" was invented by Wendi Cui (Mountain View, Calif.), Colin P. Ryan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Damien J. Lopez (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to systems and methods for performing double-level ranking of documents. The system implements methods for retrieving documents based on a pre-processed user query to generate a document level ranking of one or more documents that are determined to be relevant. The system implements methods for aggregating one or more sub-topic s...