ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,777, issued on July 29, was assigned to Qzone Inc. (Paradise Valley, Ariz.).
"System and method for using activity-backed overlays to display media content on portable devices during periods of user inactivity" was invented by Matthew Aaron Feadler (Phoenix), James Alex Wolfinger (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Sean Robert Wagner (Ferndale, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of displaying media content through a user interface of a communication device using an Activity-based Overlay technique. The method includes detecting a first user interaction with a user interface and responsively initiating a timer, the timer being configur...