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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:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Quora, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Inventors:
Adam Edward D'Angelo, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles Duplain Cheever, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Kevin G Der, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Quora, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30598 (2013.01); G06F 17/30345 (2013.01); G06Q 10/101 (2013.01);
Abstract
A question-and-answer application having questions with which topics are associated is described. In some embodiments, user-generated topics are assigned to questions to indicate the subject matter covered by the questions. The application logic includes topic merge logic for quickly and efficiently merging two topics, while enabling the topic merge operation to be easily undone if necessary.