ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,826, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for forwarding content between different application programs" was invented by Zhidong Tao (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes displaying, by a mobile terminal, an interface of a first application program. The mobile terminal can then detect a first operation performed by a user on a piece of content on the interface. The mobile terminal can then determine, in response to the first operation, selected content. The mobile terminal can then display a menu including a plurality of options ...