US Patent Issued to Avaya Management on Oct. 20 for "Automatic graphic response representing a user's reaction to a received communication" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,662, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Avaya Management LP (Morristown, N.J.).

"Automatic graphic response representing a user's reaction to a received communication" was invented by Paul Roller Michaelis (Louisville, Colo.) and Kevin Archer (Brighton, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables users on text-based communication threads to automatically receive indications of other users' visual reactions to received messages. In a particular example, a method includes receiving, at a first endpoint, a text communication in a text-communication thread from a second endpoint and presenting the text co...