US Patent Issued to Salesforce on July 14 for "Interactive and conversational data exploration" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,997, issued on July 14, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Interactive and conversational data exploration" was invented by Lawrence A Birnbaum (Evanston, Ill.) and Kristian J. Hammond (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments are disclosed where a narrative generation platform is integrated with a conversational interface such as a Chatbot to support interactive and dynamic narrative generation in response to speech inputs from users. Such a system can be further integrated with a visualization platform to allow the speech input through the conversational interface to interactively and dynamically fo...