ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,971, issued on April 7.
"Privilege management for electronic workspaces" was invented by Jia Yin (Nanjing, China), Zongpeng Qiao (Nanjing, China), Wenshuang Zhang (Nanjing, China) and Xuan Liu (Nanjing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privilege management method includes receiving, from a first user via a privileges plugin, a request to recommend a candidate to perform a task on behalf of the first user; calculating, responsive to the request to recommend the candidate, a recommendation score for each of a plurality of second users based on a position level score, a capability level score, a task similarity score, and a famili...