US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 4 for "Contextual search in collaborative communications applications" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,109, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Contextual search in collaborative communications applications" was invented by Venkata Madhu Sravanth Kurumaddali (Redmond, Wash.) and Rashi Anand (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example provides, on a computing device, a method comprising iteratively receiving, from one or more collaborative communications applications, user data comprising communications of a user, analyzing the received user data to extract contextual information regarding the user, and sending the contextual information to a contextual information dat...