US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 23 for "Initializing a conversation with an automated agent via selectable graphical element" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,698, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Initializing a conversation with an automated agent via selectable graphical element" was invented by Vikram Aggarwal (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dina Elhaddad (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for invoking an agent module in an automated assistant application in response to user selection of a selectable element presented at a graphical user interface rendered by a non-automated assistant application. The invoked agent module can be associated with other content rendered i...