ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,044, issued on June 30.
"Method of contextual annotation based on third-party application programming interfaces" was invented by Zarnigar Zahra (Karachi, Pakistan), Hammad Fauz Akhwand (Islamabad), Najam Ahmed Ansari (Karachi, Pakistan) and Melanie Gene Fellay (Nassau, Bahamas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for contextual annotation based on third party application programming interfaces. In an embodiment, metadata that represents a configuration of an organization-specific instance of a web application and comprising a plurality of objects pertaining to the configuration is received. The URL of a resource o...