ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,835, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Global Tel*Link Corp. (Reston, Va.).
"Personalized chatbots for inmates" was invented by Stephen L. Hodge (Aubrey, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system for providing a positive communication to an inmate is provided. The communication system includes memory that stores data, and an application server that that analyzes that data to determine topics that are important to the inmate. The application server includes a topic rating system to rate the topics based on importance to the inmate and based on an emotional tone used by the inmate during a communication. When the appli...