US Patent Issued to SAP on Sept. 30 for "Solving sparse data problems in a recommendation system with freezing start" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,678, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Solving sparse data problems in a recommendation system with freezing start" was invented by Nick Pendar (San Ramon, Calif.) and Seyed Farhad Faghihi (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Recommendation services typically struggle with sparse data scenarios. A freezing generated item start technique can use a matrix of external generated items to find a linking generated item. Embeddings can be used to determine distance between items. The technologies are useful for providing recommendations even in scenarios involving little or no transaction data."...