US Patent Issued to Orange on Oct. 27 for "Chatbot for an instant messaging application" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,005, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Orange (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Chatbot for an instant messaging application" was invented by Regis Esnault (Chatillon Cedex, France), Thierry Martinez (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Christian Gregoire (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing data of an instant messaging application in which users participating in a discussion exchange messages via respective terminals. The method, implemented by a computerized chatbot, includes: analyzing the exchanged messages in order to identify a current discussion context, determining a relevance of the chatbot...