US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 28 for "Online post-processing in rankings for constrained utility maximization" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,887, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Online post-processing in rankings for constrained utility maximization" was invented by Swetasudha Panda (Burlington, Mass.), Ariel Kobren (Cambridge, Mass.), Jean-Baptiste Frederic George Tristan (Burlington, Mass.) and Michael Louis Wick (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Online post-processing may be performed for rankings generated with constrained utility maximization. A stream of data items may be received. A batch of data items from the stream may be ranked according to a ranking model trained to rank data items in a desc...