US Patent Issued to SONY INTERACTiVE ENTERTAINMENT on Nov. 18 for "Context sensitive alerts involving muted users" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,018, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to SONY INTERACTiVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).

"Context sensitive alerts involving muted users" was invented by Glenn Black (San Mateo, Calif.), Celeste Bean (San Mateo, Calif.) and Michael Taylor (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Alerts can be generated to inform a prime user to unblock another user, whose audio and/or video the prime user has blocked, owing to an emerging context that may be of interest to the prime user. The prime user can be informed of such a context and provided the ability to selectively view the blocked user's comments so the full context can be understood...