ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,767, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing contextual information for queries using data sources managed by personal agents" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Tsehsin Jason Liu (Wellesley, Mass.) and Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing customized services to users of data processing systems are disclosed. To do so, a query may be obtained from a user. Contextual information for the query may be attempted to be obtained using a first data source associated with the user. If the portion of the contextual information ...