ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,911, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HMBay Patents LLC (Half Moon Bay, Calif.).
"Method and apparatus for inbound message summarization" was invented by Martin C. Lefebvre (Los Altos, Calif.) and Lucas Wiman (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method for displaying a message summary by analyzing the message to identify a sending institution and a message type. A message cluster is determined from the sending institution and repository of messages for multiple users. Extracted items can be identified in the message using the message type. Then the message summary can be generated using the extracted items, the m...