ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,460, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Assistant for providing information on unknown topics" was invented by Torbjorn Helvik (Oslo, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for assisting users with unknown topics by automatically presenting information associated with the unknown topics to the users. In an example embodiment, an unknown topic is referred to or discussed during a conversation between multiple users. A candidate definition for the topic is determined, where the candidate definition is known by the user that used the topic. Based on a determin...