US Patent Issued to BYTEDANCE on April 7 for "Conversation-based messaging method and system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,972, issued on April 7, was assigned to BYTEDANCE INC. (Los Angeles).

"Conversation-based messaging method and system" was invented by Wentao Zheng (Los Angeles), Zihao Wang (Los Angeles), Ruchir Astavans (Los Angeles), Justin Jia-Zhao Lim (Los Angeles) and Wang Liang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes conversation-based messaging techniques. The techniques comprise generating a thread identifier (ID) corresponding to a new conversation based on receiving a user input indicative of starting the new conversation, wherein the user input is received from a user via a predetermined interface elem...