ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,315, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for responding to queries" was invented by Shrisha Rao (Bangalore, India), Gyanveer Singh (Bangalore, India) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for receiving a query of a user. A first portion of the query is identified for which resolution is dependent on access to data of a third party. A connection type between the user and the third party is determined. In response to the connection type being of a predetermined type, access to the data of the third party is provided. The ...