US Patent Issued to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) on Nov. 11 for "Method and apparatus for matching wireless hotspot and point of interest" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,893, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for matching wireless hotspot and point of interest" was invented by Changwang Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jihong Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Saisai Zhou (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a method for matching a wireless hotspot and a point of interest. The method may include performing semantic normalization preprocessing on a wireless hotspot name and a point of interest name respectively. The method may further include determining a first similarity between the preprocessed w...