ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,582, issued on April 15, was assigned to Reputation.com Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).
"SMS-based review requests" was invented by Sathya Krishnamurthy (Fremont, Calif.), Manish Balsara (Foster City, Calif.) and Shrey A. Bhatia (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating requests of reviews is disclosed. Contact information associated with a potential reviewer is obtained. A message requesting the potential reviewer to write a review for an entity is transmitted. In response to receiving an indication that the potential reviewer has accepted the request to write the review for the entity, a review site on which the poten...