ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,699, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for creating social rooms based on predicted future events" was invented by Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), Dhananjay Lal (Englewood, Colo.), Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Aldis Sipolins (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides for delivering initiation of social rooms for a predicted future event by evaluating a probability of the future event occurring and pre-allocating server resources of the social network platform based on the evaluated probability and subscriptions for the social room. ...