US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on July 1 for "Method and system for providing context based query suggestions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,380, issued on July 1, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Va.).

"Method and system for providing context based query suggestions" was invented by Amit Goyal (San Francisco) and Hongbo Deng (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to providing a query suggestion. In one example, a request is received for query suggestions with respect to a query prefix input by a user. A plurality of query suggestions is determined based on the query prefix and a preceding query input by the user. A degree of popularity of the preceding query is determined. One or more query suggestions are selected from the ...