ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,873, issued on June 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Device identifier dependent operation processing of packet based data communication" was invented by Gaurav Bhaya (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Robert James Stets Jr. (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Identifier dependent operation processing of packet based data communication is provided. A natural language processor component can parse an input audio signal to identify a request and a trigger keyword. A content selector component can select, based on the request or trigger keyword, a content item. A link generation component can determine wheth...