ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,940, issued on June 17, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Va.).
"Method and system for providing query suggestions based on user feedback" was invented by Amit Goyal (San Francisco), Lizi Zhang (Urbana, Ill.), Weize Kong (Amherst, Mass.), Hongbo Deng (San Jose, Calif.), Anlei Dong (Fremont, Calif.) and Yi Chang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and programming for providing query suggestions based on user feedback. In one example, a prefix of a query is first received. An input including a prefix of a query is received from a user in a search session. A plurality of query suggestions are fetch...