ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,144, issued on July 8.
"Virtual gift display method, server, and target receiving end" was invented by Yi Zheng (Beijing), Xiaodong Wang (Beijing) and Shaoyuan Zhu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for displaying a virtual gift, a server, and a target receiving terminal are provided. With the method, multimedia information to be published is obtained, if the attribute information of the multimedia information includes preset tag information, the target receiving terminal is determined. In addition, a validity period is set for the virtual gift. When sending the virtual gift to the target receiving terminal, the virtual g...