ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,073, issued on April 22.
"Redirection service resource locator mechanism" was invented by Jesse Lakes (Seattle) and Jesse Pasichnyk (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include circuitry that processes a URL for information; circuitry that transmits at least a portion of the information via a network interface; circuitry that receives metadata via the network interface responsive to the transmission of at least a portion of the information; circuitry that associates at least a portion of the metadata with a short URL; and circuitry that transmits the short URL. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are als...