US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on May 20 for "Method and system for supplementing messages with contextual content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,108, issued on May 20, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Method and system for supplementing messages with contextual content" was invented by Mohit Goenka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nikita Varma (Milpitas, Calif.), Ashish Khushal Dharamshi (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Gnanavel Shanmugam (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application relates to a method for supplementing messages with contextual content. A processor can receive a message from a sender to a user that includes a content item. The processor can then predict a next action of the user based on the message by inputting the content item into a predictiv...