ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,300, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Threading chats with application activity" was invented by Felix G. T. I. Andrew (Seattle) and Kjel Benjamin Larsen (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples relate to systems and methods for restoring threads including context of the threads outside of a chat interface. During a thread including multiple queries and responses, one or more of the responses may include links to web pages and/or to other applications (e.g., presentation applications, word-processing applications). During interactions with the thread, one or more of the ...