H04L 51/02

User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols

Official title: using automatic reactions or user delegation, e.g. automatic replies or chatbot-generated messages

H04L51/02 (User-to-user messaging in packet-switching networks, transmitted according to store-and-forward or real-time protocols) appears on 4,052 US grants and 5,441 published applications in this corpus.

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