ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,987, issued on May 12, was assigned to WhatsApp LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"First-party application data transfer" was invented by Ming Zhou (Pasadena, Calif.), Alison Luiz de Oliveira Chaves (Redwood City, Calif.) and William DeBruynkops (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As disclosed herein, a computer-implemented method is provided. In one aspect, the computer-implemented method may include capturing, at a first client device hosting a messaging application, a context code generated for display in a graphical user interface of a second client device hosting the messaging application. The computer-implemented method may in...