ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,565, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Shutterstock Inc. (New York).
"Media file recommendations for a search engine" was invented by Raul Gomez (Dublin) and Alessandra Sala (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recommending results to a user from a search query is provided. The method includes receiving, in a search engine, a search query for a media file from a user, identifying a style preference of the user associated with a one or more media file attributes, based on a user-related search history, selecting, from a database, a one or more media files based on the search query and the style preference of the user, ...