US Patent Issued to NTT DOCOMO on Nov. 4 for "Prediction interpretation apparatus and prediction interpretation method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,170, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to NTT DOCOMO Inc. (Tokyo).

"Prediction interpretation apparatus and prediction interpretation method" was invented by Taku Itou (Tokyo), Keiichi Ochiai (Tokyo) and Yusuke Fukazawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prediction interpretation apparatus, comprising: a data storage unit configured to store data of a plurality of users; a model storage unit configured to store a prediction model learned from data of the whole of the plurality of users; a vicinity user search unit configured to extract vicinity users for the target user from the data storage unit; a linear regression model learning ...