US Patent Issued to NEC Platforms on Oct. 20 for "Gateway apparatus, private branch exchange system, and private branch exchange method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,784, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Gateway apparatus, private branch exchange system, and private branch exchange method" was invented by Yosuke Shimizu (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gateway apparatus provided on communication path between private branch exchanger and cloud PBX, wherein the private branch exchanger has function of performing other party response notification to subordinate terminal when representative incoming call is made in response to call made from external telephone, wherein the cloud PBX has function of virtually performing private branch exchange ...