ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,192, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Generating recommendations by using communicative discourse trees of conversations" was invented by Boris Galitsky (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for improved autonomous agents that can provide a recommendation in a non-intrusive, conversational manner. In an aspect, a method determines a first sentiment score for a first utterance and a second sentiment score for a second utterance, each sentiment score indicating an emotion indicated by the respective utterance. The method further identifies that a ...