ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,749, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for providing service based on integrated chatbot and system thereof" was invented by Ju Seon Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hyuck Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Seong Su Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method performed by a computing system for providing an integrated chatbot-based service. The method includes receiving, by an integrated chatbot, a query from a user device; extracting a main keyword from the query; transmitting the extracted main keyword to a first chatbot and a second chatbot; receiving, from...