ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,881, issued on March 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Methods and systems for delaying message notifications" was invented by Amman Sabet (Philadelphia) and Christopher Hungate (Royersford, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for delayed message notification associated with a content item. The system can receive a notification from a first user and intended for a second user, and can comprise a message, a content identifier, and a timestamp indicating a relative time within a content item associated with the content identifier. The system can transmit, to a device ...