ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,407, issued on March 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"User profile linking" was invented by Fabien Hertschuh (Seattle), Mohit Mittal (Vancouver, Canada), John Montague Howard (Seattle), Akshit Proothi (Seattle) and Rahul Manne (Lynwood, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for linking generating a skill-stored user profile, and linking same with a natural language processing (NLP) system-stored user profile. In at least some examples, a user may provide a natural language input to a NLP system. The NLP system may determine a skill is to process to perform an action responsive to the nat...