US Patent Issued to Nile Global on Nov. 25 for "Systems and methods for providing a filtered discovery service" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,631, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Nile Global Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for providing a filtered discovery service" was invented by Dipen Vardhe (San Jose, Calif.) and Suresh Katukam (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Databases may include records that: associate service providers with location indicators and with service types. A proximity rule may be associated with one of the service types. A discovery request may include location metadata and a service identifier associated with the service type associated with the proximity rule. In response to receiving the discovery request, the proximit...