ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,384, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Action suggestions for user-selected content" was invented by Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Daniel Ramage (Seattle) and David Petrou (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for suggesting actions for selected text based on content displayed on a mobile device. An example method can include converting a selection made via a display device into a query, providing the query to an action suggestion model that is trained to predict an action given a query, each action being associated with a mobile application, ...