US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 22 for "System for requesting emergency service in an online collaboration context" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,847, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System for requesting emergency service in an online collaboration context" was invented by Brian Daniel Meersma (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology disclosed herein includes a method of operating a communication service. The method includes hosting a conference call comprising bidirectional communications between at least a first endpoint and a second endpoint; receiving, in the context of the conference call, a request from the first endpoint for emergency service on behalf of a user at the second endpoint, wherein ...