ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,181, issued on Oct. 28.
"System and method for scheduling display of incoming messages" was invented by Meir Dahan (Tiberias, Israel) and Eliahu Antopolsky (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for scheduling display of incoming messages that includes displaying a user interface to enable selection of contacts, specification of a scheduled time, and instruction to apply a non-displayed mod to messages from the selected contacts to the user until the scheduled time, receiving the user selection of the contacts and the scheduled time, receiving the incoming message, storing the message in the non-di...