US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on April 22 for "Topic suggestion in messaging systems" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,148, issued on April 22, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Topic suggestion in messaging systems" was invented by Webber Po-Wei Lee (Bellevue, Wash.), Daniil Sokolov (Bothell, Wash.), Jaclyn Ruth Elizabeth Phillips (Vancouver, Canada), Yi Zhang (Kirkland, Wash.), Jennifer Oliva Ede (Everett, Wash.), Shoou-Jiun Wang (Sammamish, Wash.) and Tracy My Tuyen Nguyen (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for suggesting topics in a messaging system. A set of queries is received from a chat transcript history, where the set of queries includes a set of unhandled queries, and e...