US Patent Issued to 8x8 on Sept. 29 for "Dynamic direction of incoming calls" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,442, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Dynamic direction of incoming calls" was invented by Garth Judge (Campbell, Calif.), Zhishen Liu (Campbell, Calif.) and Bryan R. Martin (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods concerning call routing are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a call alert message, indicative of the call answer options, is communicated from a data-communications server to the communication device, determined in response to receiving an incoming call for a communication device at the server. A selected option is received from the communication device. I...