US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Feb. 18 for "Generating notifications that provide context for predicted content interruptions" (New York, California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,739, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating notifications that provide context for predicted content interruptions" was invented by Cliff Kuang (San Francisco), Jesse Kaczmarek (New York), Andy Gugel (Eden Prairie, Minn.) and Jonathan Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to providing notifications regarding events that may interrupt content being rendered at an interface. The notifications can be preemptive and/or can indicate a predicted time and/or source for the events. The event can be, for example, a person attempting to contact a u...