ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,959, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Task execution based on context" was invented by Lane Fujita (Oakland, Calif.), Matthew P. Bernardo (Boxborough, Mass.), Pedro Mari (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jessica J. Peck (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Lynn I. Streja (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory: receiving a user input including a request for a task; in accordance with a determination that a context being displayed by the elect...