US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on May 6 for "Method and apparatus for a step-enabled workflow" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,218, issued on May 6, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for a step-enabled workflow" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and an apparatus including processing circuitry configured to receive workflow information of a workflow. The processing circuitry generates, based on the workflow information, the workflow to process input data. The workflow includes a first processing task, a second processing task, and a first buffering task. The first processing task is caused to enter a running state where a subset of the...