ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,583, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Ambiguity resolution for application integration" was invented by Lewis N. Perkins (Cambridge, Mass.), Peter E. Boothroyd (London), Antonio M. Cancio (San Francisco), Thorvaldur Helgason (Cambridge, Great Britain), Antoine R. Raux (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Gayathri Sairamkrishnan (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An intelligent automated assistant receives a user input and generates a set of one or more token sequences based on the user input. The set of one...