US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 29 for "Composite entity for rule driven acquisition of input data to chatbots" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,648, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Composite entity for rule driven acquisition of input data to chatbots" was invented by Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde (Fremont, Calif.), Manish Parekh (San Jose, Calif.), Steven Martijn Davelaar (Amsterdam) and Manmohit Rekhi (Herdon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to chatbot systems, and more particularly, to techniques for obtaining data items for input to a chatbot. In certain embodiments, a chatbot system includes a component that can be invoked by a chatbot in the chatbot system to obtain data items need...