US Patent Issued to DISH Network on Oct. 7 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for providing conversational assistance" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,977, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DISH Network LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for providing conversational assistance" was invented by Nicholas Newell (Centennial, Colo.) and Swapnil Tilaye (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conversation support systems and methods are operable to assist a user to more fully participate in an ongoing conversation. An exemplary embodiment receives a conversation map comprising a serially arranged plurality of conversation segments of audio information each associated with one of a plurality of conversation participants, and that includes dialogue of the ongo...