ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,221, issued on May 20, was assigned to Netography Inc. (Annapolis, Md.).
"Collaborative command line interface" was invented by Barrett Lyon (Truckee, Calif.) and Daniel Murphy (Miami).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a robot (bot) representing a prescribed service employed by an entity is added as a user in a collaboration service channel associated with the entity. The bot facilitates in making the collaboration service channel a command line interface that interfaces with the prescribed service. A command associated with the command line interface that is received on the collaboration service channel is responded...