US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 21 for "Topic-based synchronization of a chat interface with an information interface" (Washington, Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,601, issued on July 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Topic-based synchronization of a chat interface with an information interface" was invented by Jennifer Darmour (Seattle), Orry Soegiono (Bellevue, Wash.), Micah Lawler Sonderman (San Antonio) and Salman Saleem Sheikh (Sanford, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for synchronizing the topic of messages in a chat interface with content in an information pane include concurrently displaying a chat interface and an information pane in a GUI and monitoring the content currently displayed within the information pane to determine a set ...