US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms on Dec. 9 for "Presenting personalized content during idle time for assistant systems" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,098, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Meta Platforms Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Presenting personalized content during idle time for assistant systems" was invented by Sheng Bi (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael Greenberg (Oakland, Calif.) and Angela Alarcon (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input associated with a task from a client system associated with a first user, calculating an idle time associated with the task based on the user input and the task, determining a level of interactivity of content items to display for the first user during the idle time based on a lengt...