ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,620, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Hybrid client and server ranking system" was invented by Shaun Harrison (Oakdale, Calif.), Daniel Vincent Grippi (New York), Jason Yeung (New York), David Phillip Taitz (Los Angeles), Xingnan Xia (Bellevue, Calif.) and Senthil Sundaram (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid client and server ranking system downloads and update from the backend system to a temporary storage location on the computing device and validates the update to the model without loading it permanently into the application by executing the update to the model with no data...