MUMBAI, India, Oct. 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202647122570 A) filed by Google LLC on October 13, 2026, for Mixed Consent Mode In Group Messaging With Conversational Agents.
Inventors include Schvarcbacher, Martin; Budhiraja, Neena; Evans, David Stephen; Liu, Hui-Chen; Kirubanandan, Nandakiran; Buyayo, James Anthony Bueno; Chaukulkar, Ishaa Ajay; Sunde, Jakob; De Corn, Henri Faucher; Pinsky, Yury; and Nguyen, Brandon Dai-Bi.
The application for the patent was published on October 23, 2026, under issue no. 43/2026.
Abstract: This document describes systems and techniques for accommodating mixed consent in group messaging with conversational agents. In aspects, when a user sends a message in a messaging group, the message is sent to all other users in the messaging group. However, based on a per-user consent state, messages may also be sent to a conversational agent in the messaging group. Responses from the conversational agent can also be sent to all users in the messaging group. If a user in the messaging group denies consent, then messages sent by the user are not sent to the conversational agent. In this way, all users in the messaging group can receive responses from a conversational agent when prompted by at least one user in the messaging group, while other users in the messaging group who deny consent can maintain anonymity to the conversational agent.
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