US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 21 for "Application integration system and method" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,297, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Application integration system and method" was invented by Siddharth Gulati (Kirkland, Wash.), John Giang Nguyen (Duvall, Wash.), Graham Lee Mcmynn (Redmond, Wash.) and Aninda Ray (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system for a cloud-based collaboration and communication application receives a call to a first application programming interface (API) at a collaboration and communication service from a client application during a boot process for the client application. The first API call indicates that a web uni...