ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,513, issued on June 2, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Client live keeping method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Shili Xu (Shenzhen, China), Kai Hong (Shenzhen, China), Qitian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jingjing Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Zhuan Liu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments provide a client live keeping method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The method includes: receiving, based on a client being switched to a background, a request including state information of a target state of the client at a current time and a target...