US Patent Issued to PROOFPOINT on May 20 for "Systems and methods for query term analytics" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,857, issued on May 20, was assigned to PROOFPOINT INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for query term analytics" was invented by Jeremiah Ness (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query term analytics system receives a search query from a user device. The system has an engine enhanced with the ability to track query terms using in-memory counters and leveraging an inverted index of content stored in a content repository. The search query is run on the content and, contemporaneously the engine performs a query term analysis on the query terms to produce query term analytics. The query term analysis includes an impact an...