ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,412, issued on July 29, was assigned to OPEN TEXT Corp. (Halifax, Canada).
"Method and system for optimization of faceted search" was invented by Caroline Spruit (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Petr Olegovich Pleshachkov (Nootdorp, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, embodiments of the technology relate to a method for multipath searching. The method includes generating a multipath index and using the multipath index to service a request. Generating the multipath index includes obtaining a main path, a first subpath and a plurality of additional subpaths from a multipath index definition, identifying documents that in...