ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,800, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Exchanging status messages during a call" was invented by Chinmay Dhodapkar (Mountain View, Calif.), Amruth Ramachandran (Fremont, Calif.), Radhika Agrawal (San Diego) and David J. Krause (Kenosha, Wis.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques and devices for exchanging status messages during a call. Techniques described herein utilize a computing device to establish a real-time person-to-person media session (e.g., a call) with another device through a wireless communication network. Through the wireless communication network, the com...