ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,360, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Linked file engagement" was invented by Samuel Robert Cundall (Mercer Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, machine-readable mediums, and devices for providing an aggregated view of reactions to content across multiple sharing locations of a network-based content sharing service and in some examples across multiple sharing locations of multiple network-based content sharing services. The system may track or determine reactions across different sharing locations of a single content shari...