ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,959, issued on March 4, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science and Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for embedding user app interest" was invented by Huiqiang Zhong (Beijing), Siqi Xu (Beijing), Chenhui Liu (Beijing), Lianghui Chen (Beijing) and Jun Fang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, an apparatus, a device and a storage medium for embedding user app interest are provided. The method includes: acquiring a user existing app installation list and a user app installation list within a predetermined time window, where the app includes app ID information and app category ...