ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,771, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to ASAPP INC. (New York).

"Third-party service for suggesting resources for a received message" was invented by Shawn Henry (Boulder, Colo.), Gustavo Sapoznik (Belgrade, Mont.), Hui Dai (New York) and Joseph Hackman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A third-party service may be used to assist entities in responding to requests of users by determining a suggested resource corresponding to a received communication. The third party service may receive a request from a first entity, such as via an application programming interface request, that includes a message in a conversation. A conversati...