ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,697, issued on May 27, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Control method and storage medium" was invented by Maogang Chen (Beijing) and Zhepeng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method includes determining that a display interface of an application client terminal is detected to be in a first display state, sending a first trigger instruction to cause a cloud computer to transmit a first message to an electronic device in response to the first trigger instruction, receiving the first message, generating a local notification message of the electronic device based on the first message, and displaying...