ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,866, issued on March 18, was assigned to Alibaba Singapore Holding Private Ltd. (Singapore).
"Method and apparatus for providing information" was invented by Xu Huang (Hangzhou, China), Jie Xu (Hangzhou, China), Liang Shi (Hangzhou, China), Danqiong Chen (Hangzhou, China), Jie Gao (Hangzhou, China) and Yuping Zhang (Hangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing information includes receiving a reference notification message that a target account number is referenced, the reference notification message being sent by a first information system after receiving a request initiated by a first user for first inform...