US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 4 for "Environment- and preference-based application and operation guidance selection" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,901, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Environment- and preference-based application and operation guidance selection" was invented by Xiang Wei Li (Beijing), Dong Chen (Beijing), Ye Chuan Wang (Beijing), Ting Ting Zhan (Beijing), Ju Ling Liu (Beijing), Yu An (Beijing) and Wei Yan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting an application and associated operational guidance to utilize on a mobile device is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method identifies a selected environment of interest. Within the selected environment, the method identifies one or more ...