ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,687, issued on July 22, was assigned to Open Text Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Conversation-enabled document system and method" was invented by James Matthew Downs (Lexington, Ky.), Byron Steven Pruitt (Lexington, Ky.), Jeffrey Alan Cole (Georgetown, Ky.) and Anthony Wiley (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment comprises a non-transitory, computer-readable medium embodying thereon computer-executable instructions for receiving a document design, generating a conversation-enabled document from the document design, exposing the conversation-enabled document on a conversation channel, receiving a particip...