US Patent Issued to WALMART APOLLO on Oct. 14 for "Automatic strategic updates of a content catalog using content provider rankings and confidence scoring" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,982, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Automatic strategic updates of a content catalog using content provider rankings and confidence scoring" was invented by Shashank Reddy Gudupally (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Bala Srinivas Pillarisetty (Milpitas, Calif.) and Omar Saeed Siddiqui (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including tracking a dynamic source ranking for a content provider separately by item categories of items of a content catalog. The method also can include receiving a new value to be associated with an attribute in an attribute-value pair for an item of the items...