US Patent Issued to Yahoo Assets on July 15 for "Two-stage time-enriched system and method for query clustering" (California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,072, issued on July 15, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).

"Two-stage time-enriched system and method for query clustering" was invented by Donghyun Kim (Mountain View, Calif.), Xinyue Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rao Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chang Lu (Jersey City, N.J.) and Liuqing Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, in connection with a search clustering system, a grouping component retrieves a timestamp set of news queries and determines a time-stable set of news query groups by performing the first stage of a two-stage clustering technique. A clustering component determines a time-stable s...