ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,719, issued on April 8, was assigned to Proofpoint Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"Secure URL shortener for character-limited messages" was invented by Thomas Lee (Kensington, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing secure shortened URLs in character-limited messages. A computing platform may receive one or more character-limited messages sent to a user device. The computing platform may detect a URL within the one or more character-limited messages for replacement and generate a shortened URL corresponding to the detected URL, wherein a domain of the shortened URL is hosted by the message secur...