US Patent Issued on Feb. 24 for "System and method of connecting a caller to a recipient based on the recipient's status and relationship to the caller" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,141, issued on Feb. 24.

"System and method of connecting a caller to a recipient based on the recipient's status and relationship to the caller" was invented by Farhad Arshad (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method comprising receiving a plurality of categories of availability statuses, receiving a plurality of categories of different contact groups, identifying, for each contact, at least one contact group, receiving a plurality of rules for call handling, each of the plurality of rules being associated with at least one of the different availability statuses and at least one of the different contact groups, re...