ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,399, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Progress status after interruption of online service" was invented by Dong Chen (Beijing), Yuan Jie Zhang (Ningbo, China), Ming Lei Zhang (Beijing), Yin Xi Guo (Beijing) and Ting Ting Zhan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for a restoring missing content to a user that was absent during a portion of a live event. The process will identify the absence period and that is being participated by a user and obtains extracted information relating to the user that was prev...