ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,165, issued on July 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Methods and apparatus for suppressing network feed activities using an information feed in an on-demand database service environment" was invented by William Gradin (San Francisco), Matthew Davidchuk (San Francisco), Qiu Ma (San Leandro, Calif.), Leonid Zemskov (San Mateo, Calif.) and Amy Palke (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for suppressing network feed activities using an information feed in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, a message is received...