US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 15 for "Providing contextual actions in command line interfaces" (Florida, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,788, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Providing contextual actions in command line interfaces" was invented by Daniel John Imms (Bothell, Wash.) and Megan Moriarity Rogge (Inlet Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for expanding capabilities of a computing shell, which exposes services provided by an OS and which is separated from a kernel of the OS, by enabling a command line interface (CLI) of the shell to have context aware capabilities. An event in which a command is entered in the CLI is detected. The CLI displays a command decoration that is selectable and...