ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,491, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Communicating and taking action based on contexts for messages between users in copy management systems" was invented by Salil Dangi (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Nitin Madan (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System determines first context of messages between copy management system users and creates snapshot of copy management content part, which is displayed by user interface, and selected by system user as context for subsequent message. System creates hyperlink in message to snapshot that depicts copy management content part and stores us...