ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,593, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rovi Product Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User substitution in online multi-user event" was invented by Govind Raveendranathan Nair (Bengaluru, India), Sangeeta Parida (Bengaluru, India), Udit Sharma (Panchkula, India), Anil Kumar (Bengaluru, India) and Ved Prakash Mohapatra (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally disclosed herein is an approach for enabling a substitute user to continue from the original user's saved participation state when the original user left an online multi-user event. The original user's state may be stored as a token. The stored token may be generated ba...