ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,596, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Delaying live communications" was invented by Preethi Konduri (Cupertino, Calif.), Justin R. Etzine (San Jose, Calif.), Austin W. Shyu (San Jose, Calif.), William Spurgeon (Cupertino, Calif.), Pierre J. De Filippis (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Daniel B. Pollack (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some techniques are described herein to enable a sending device to provide personalized data to a receiving device before a live communication is initialized. For example, a sending device can selectively delay a live communication and, when doing so, send a re...