ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,917, issued on July 14, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and electronic device for message notification based on client active status" was invented by Zifeng Feng (Beijing), Ziqing Xu (Beijing) and Jianfeng Ni (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for message notification, the method including: in accordance with a determination that a message is reachable for a plurality of clients of a user, determining a currently active client of the user; and notifying the message in a first notification mode a...