ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,279, issued on March 3, was assigned to BEIJING BYTEDANCE NETWORK TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Content recommendation method and apparatus" was invented by Shuai Wang (Beijing), Yaodong Huang (Beijing) and Xiang Shen (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure discloses a content recommendation method and apparatus. The content recommendation method includes: receiving, from a terminal device, content request information for requesting to acquire a recommendation content item corresponding to a target user; determining whether a recommendation server is faulty; acquiring a first recommendation content item according ...