US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 13 for "Explainable cluster-based collaborative filtering" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,502, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Explainable cluster-based collaborative filtering" was invented by Mingqi Wu (Bellevue, Wash.), Jianxun Lian (Beijing), Yuntao Du (Beijing), Jing Yao (Beijing), Xiting Wang (Beijing), Bei Lu (Sammamish, Wash.) and Xing Xie (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing recommendations to a user includes assigning one or more item tags from a known set of tags to one or more items of a plurality of items; assigning one or more user tags from the known set of tags to a user; determining at least one taste cluster having one or ...