ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,253, issued on March 3, was assigned to 17LIVE JAPAN INC. (Tokyo).

"Server and method" was invented by Jayneel Pawar (Tokyo), Hemant Mehta (Tokyo), Uday Kumar Edudula (Tokyo) and Ajay Prakash Mangale (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server of a livestreaming platform includes a circuitry configured to: hold, in a holding unit, a user ID for identifying a user on the livestreaming platform and livestreamer-of-interest IDs for identifying livestreamers of interest registered by the user as livestreamers that the user is interested in, in association with each other; and divide, in a processing unit, the livestreamers of interest...