Apple Integrating Siri Into Messages App According To New Patent Application

Tim Cook's company could be expanding the use of Siri into the Messages app. Apple's latest patent application appears to be suggesting that in the future, Siri could be deeply integrated into Messages such that users would have the capacity to send messages to their friends while also communicating with Siri in a single interface. This Thursday, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Officer published a new patent application that was filed by the Cupertino giant on May 10, 2016. Such combination would enable users to do two things in one interface: communicate and command Siri via text and engage in conversations with friends. "In one example process, a graphical user interface (GUI) having a plurality of previous messages between a user of the electronic device and the digital assistant can be displayed on a display. The plurality of previous messages can be presented in a conversational view," wrote inventors Petr Karashchuk, Tomas A. Vega Galvez and Thomas R. Gruber.