US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Sept. 1 for "Reducing telephone network traffic through utilization of pre-call information" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,569, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Reducing telephone network traffic through utilization of pre-call information" was invented by Yoav Tzur (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yaniv Leviathan (New York), Yossi Matias (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Eyal Segalis (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations receive, via a client device, user input to initiate a telephone call with an entity, and, in response to receiving the user input to initiate the telephone call with the entity and prior to initiating the telephone call with the entity: obtain pre-call information that is stored in association ...