ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,724, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to DISCORD INC. (San Francisco).
"Real-time message moderation" was invented by Mathew Kleppin (Charlotte, N.C.) and Hemagiri Arumugam (Hagerstown, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides real-time message moderation that checks messages against a list of trigger checks and determines whether or not the message should be blocked before the message is sent to other members of the community. The real-time message moderation uses a rules system that enables administrators to generate a customized sets of rules, such as custom keyword filter that blocks a message if it contain...