ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,115, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to 17LIVE Japan INC. (Tokyo).

"Server, method and computer program" was invented by Kun-Ze Li (Taipei City, Taiwan), Che-Wei Liu (Taipei City, Taiwan), You-Chang Lin (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chieh-Min Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Hao-Chia Chung (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Cheng Fan (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia-Yi Yeh (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Chuan Chang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chi-Hao Hsieh (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yung-Chi Hsu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Po-Kao Tseng (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chien-Ming Lai (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Shih-Wei Chou (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server compr...