ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,668, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Yahoo Assets LLC (New York).
"System and method for ranking content items" was invented by Liuqing Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yufeng Ma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Donghyun Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Rao Shen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kostas Tsioutsiouliklis (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, in response to a request for content, content items may be identified. Content item scores associated with the content items may be determined using a content scoring model. A first ranked list may be generated based upon the content item scores using an exploration model. The first ranke...