US Patent Issued to Truveo on March 22 for "Method and Apparatus for a Ranking Engine" (Null, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 28 -- United States Patent no. 7,912,836, issued on March 22, was assigned to Truveo Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method and Apparatus for a Ranking Engine" was invented by Timothy D. Tuttle (San Francisco), Adam Beguelin (Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam) and Peter Kocks (San Francisco).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for ranking files from an Internet search. In one embodiment, the method comprises assigning a score to each file based on at least one of the following factors: recency, editorial popularity, clickthru popularity, favorites metadata, or favorites collaborative filtering. The file may be organized based on the assigned scores to provide users with more accurate search results."

The patent was filed on Jan. 28, 2008, under Application No. 12/020,983.

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