ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,488, issued on July 29, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Vatican City State (Holy See)).
"Method and system for recommending content" was invented by Shiyu Chang (San Jose, Calif.), Jiliang Tang (San Jose, Calif.), Dawei Yin (San Jose, Calif.) and Yi Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to recommending content by analyzing the streamed data. A request is received from a user requesting one or more recommendations from a set of items. A first distribution indicative of an interest distribution of the user in a plurality of topics is obtained. For each item, a second distribution...