ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,968, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Independently presenting status of order" was invented by Samuel Birch (Seattle) and Benjamin Albert Azose (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include identifying a tracking identifier in a HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request or response by analyzing the request or the response, storing the tracking identifier, independent of rendered browsing activity, requesting a status of an item associated with the tracking identifier, the status indicating a location of the item, receiving the status, and providing the status for disp...