US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on April 7 for "Method for protecting privacy of group member in group and terminal device" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,457, issued on April 7, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method for protecting privacy of group member in group and terminal device" was invented by Zhiwei Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal device displays a group member list of a group in an instant messaging application; the terminal device displays a first phone number of the first group member; the terminal device displays a profile picture and/or a user name of the second group member, and a control used for adding a contact; the terminal device sends a first request to a cloud server in response to a third operation for the c...