Patents by Inventor Laks Lakshmanan

Laks Lakshmanan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Diversifying recommendation results through explanation
    Patent number: 8359280
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for making recommendations of content items to users of computer systems include compiling a database relating a list of items and corresponding explanations; receiving from a user, through a computer user interface, a request for a recommendation; extracting from the database a preliminary list of items related to the request; identifying distances between the extracted items based on the explanation corresponding to each item; and identifying a subset of the preliminary list to form a recommendation list having a limited number of recommendation results with a desired balance of both high relevancy and high diversity relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Cong Yu, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks Lakshmanan
  • DIVERSIFYING RECOMMENDATION RESULTS THROUGH EXPLANATION
    Publication number: 20100235317
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for making recommendations of content items to users of computer systems include compiling a database relating a list of items and corresponding explanations; receiving from a user, through a computer user interface, a request for a recommendation; extracting from the database a preliminary list of items related to the request; identifying distances between the extracted items based on the explanation corresponding to each item; and identifying a subset of the preliminary list to form a recommendation list having a limited number of recommendation results with a desired balance of both high relevancy and high diversity relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Cong Yu, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Laks Lakshmanan