US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 4 for "Task-action prediction engine for a task management system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,816, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Task-action prediction engine for a task management system" was invented by Raunak Oberoi (Seattle), Shashank Madiraju (Hyderabad, India), Ajay Kumar (Hyderabad, India) and Neha Singh (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing predicted task-actions for tasks from a plurality of task applications associated with a task management system. In operation, a task associated with a task application is accessed at a task-action prediction engine. An intent of the task is determined. T...