US Patent Issued to Bytedance on Jan. 28 for "Customization of message delivery time based on consumer behavior" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,066, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Bytedance Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Customization of message delivery time based on consumer behavior" was invented by Chris Trimble (San Francisco), Sean O'Brien (Freemont, Calif.) and Geetha Kakarlapudi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for determining when an electronic correspondence is reviewed by a consumer, and referencing this information when generating a subsequent electronic correspondence. The information may be used to determine when to send the subsequent electronic correspondence to the consumer. For example, the subsequent corresponden...