We congratulate Sameer Patil, assistant professor at the School of Informatics and Computing at IU-Bloomington. He was named on three patents recently issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office!
Patil worked four weeks in the summer of 2014 as a consultant at Quixey, a Mountain View, Calif.-based high tech company. His work led to several patent applications, three of which were issued recently. According to an article written by Kevin Fryling for IU’s Science at Work blog, “The common thread connecting the patents is their focus on protecting individual privacy while also opening up the convenience of social app search to a wider audience.”
“The two major U.S. players in app search — Google’s Play Store and the Apple App Store — need improvement on two major fronts: relevance and accuracy, and search,” said Patil, who joined IU in August. “There currently isn’t a good way to sort or filter or find apps, and both services are overly focused on precise queries. If you don’t know an app happens to be called ‘Yelp,’ for example, you might not be able to find it. A search for ‘app for finding places to eat’ doesn’t cut it.”
You can read the complete article, which includes descriptions of all three patented technologies, here.
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