ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,265, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HonestyPledge GmbH (Basel, Switzerland).
"Method and system for influencing user interactions" was invented by Dan Ostergaard (Oberwil, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer-implemented method of pre-processing a user access request to an online communications session. The method comprises of the steps of transferring (62) the user to a pre-communication session, communicating (64) an honesty primer (70, 80) to the user, the honesty primer (70, 80) includes at least a message and/or action and/or exercise and transferring (69) the user to the communicati...