US Patent Issued on May 6 for "Computerized agent external to an instant messaging (IM) service for enhancing an IM session managed by the IM service" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,347, issued on May 6.

"Computerized agent external to an instant messaging (IM) service for enhancing an IM session managed by the IM service" was invented by Roy S. Melzer (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adding a computerized agent to an instant messaging (IM) session managed by an IM service for identifying automatically textual instructions to perform a transaction related to participant(s) of the IM session, comprising: using a computerized agent subscribed to an IM service by a telephone number and participates in an IM session managed by an IM service to acquire text content in an IM session and ana...