ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,383, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Guangdong, China).
"Application startup and archiving" was invented by Yun Zhang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for starting an application is provided. In the method, a video that includes game content of a game application is played back. A startup operation to start the game application is received from a user during the playback of the video. The game application is started in response to the startup operation. Further, the game content of the started game application that is determined to match the game content of the video when the s...