US Patent Issued to Yahoo Assets on June 24 for "Ranking user comments on media using reinforcement learning optimizing for session dwell time" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,311, issued on June 24, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).

"Ranking user comments on media using reinforcement learning optimizing for session dwell time" was invented by Kapil Thadani (New York), Akshay Soni (New York), Parikshit Shah (New York), Troy Chevalier (New York), Sreekanth Ramakrishnan (New York), Aaron Nagao (New York) and Zhi Qu (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided, including: storing comments generated in response to a content item served over a network; analyzing the comments to determine features associated with each of the comments; using a scoring model to score each comment based ...