ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,239, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).
"Methods and apparatus for improving search retrieval" was invented by Md Mansurul Alam Bhuiyan (San Jose, Calif.), Suhas Ranganath (Bangalore, India), Shuangyu Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Min Xie (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed subject matter relates to a system and method for providing an extended search. The system generates a list of similar intent groups based on previous engagements linking queries and intents. Upon the detection of an intent in a user query, the system accesses similar intents from the similar i...