ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,492, issued on March 18, was assigned to YAHOO AD TECH LLC (New York).
"Local content exchange for mobile devices via mediated inter-application communication" was invented by Gaurav Chaula (New Delhi) and Kavind Aggarwal (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and devices for converting mobile notifications to content using a local content exchange. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request for content from a mobile application; querying a data store of available content, the data store of available content populated with one or more notifications received by other mobile application...