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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 20, 2013
Applicant:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Melissa Youngju Byun, Cambridge, MA (US);
Jokubas Zukerman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/3025 (2013.01); G06F 17/30705 (2013.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of the invention automatically assign colors to topics in a topic database based on a respective topic's unique identifier within the topic database. One or more functions are applied to transform each topic's unique identifier into a respective color, for example by hashing the unique identifier string, and using the hash to index into an array of colors. Thus, content items pertaining to the same topic can be consistently branded with the same color in visual presentations to the user.