ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,485, issued on June 10, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Message processing using a client-side control group" was invented by Drew Maniglia (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Lauren Pendo (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and/or computer program product embodiments for processing of messages at a media device for analysis purposes. An embodiment operates by transmitting a message request from a media device to a messaging server. In response, the media device receives a message response containing a message and messenger identifier. The media ...