US Patent Issued to KAYAK Software on April 8 for "Reducing latency in query-based search engines" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,377, issued on April 8, was assigned to KAYAK Software Corp. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Reducing latency in query-based search engines" was invented by Jacob Vincent Bouvrie (Arlington, Mass.), Michele Alberti (Bern, Switzerland) and Giorgos Zacharia (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: receiving a query specifying one or more criteria for a travel reservation, transmitting, over a network, one or more requests for live travel data satisfying the one or more criteria, determining one or more query results that satisfy the one or more c...