ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,922, issued on July 14, was assigned to Promptu Systems Corp. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"User notification for digital content access systems per mutable or fixed selection criteria" was invented by Harry William Printz (San Francisco), Jason Simpson (Redwood City, Calif.) and Rhys McCane (Gold Coast, Australia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for monitoring and notifying a user of changes to characteristics of interest list items. The method includes recording within a memory of a user device a specification of a user's interest list items and characteristics thereof, and a specification of the user's criteri...