ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,202, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Utilizing user-profile to prioritize processing of messages" was invented by Suresh Gopathy (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Gajendar Pandey (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for prioritizing the scanning and delivery of messages based on an account status and/or activity pattern. A messaging service provider may receive a message that is to be delivered to a user of the messaging service. A message processing service of the service provider may also receive and/or extract metadata from the email that enables the me...