ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,018, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York).
"Conditional advertising for instant messaging" was invented by Orey Gilliam (Raanana, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An instant message sender user interface for an instant messaging communications session involving an instant message sender and an instant message recipient is rendered, the user interface including a conversation window. User input is entered by the instant message sender through manipulation of the user interface, the user input including data for transmission as an instant message from the instant message sender. An instruction by the ins...