ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,155, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Command based communication" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.), Eric Edmond Thomasian (Los Angeles) and Zhen Zhu (Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for providing a command-based communication are disclosed, comprising identifying a target user from a user database based on parsed entries subsequent to an action command in a compose field of a group thread, receiving a user selection of one of two operation modes in which the system operates, including a fork mode and a notification mode, and ...