ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,671, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rakuten Group Inc. (Tokyo).

"Server device, matching method, and recording medium" was invented by Hiroshi Wakamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a server device, a user information acquirer acquires user information about a target user, among users that have accessed a second service (for example, an affiliated service such as a sales service) via link information set in content that a content creator has posted to a first service (for example, an external service), that has an account with the second service. A processor uses the user information to perform processing for assisti...