US Patent Issued to Tableau Software on Dec. 16 for "Using messaging system threading for interpreting natural language analytical conversations" (California, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,318, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Tableau Software LLC (Seattle).

"Using messaging system threading for interpreting natural language analytical conversations" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Melanie K. Tory (Portland, Maine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method uses natural language processing for visual analysis of a dataset, in a messaging application. The method includes receiving a first natural language (NL) input directed to a data source, in a messaging application. The first NL input includes at least one underspecified or ambiguous utterance. The method also includes parsing the fi...