ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,214, issued on May 20, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus, method and computer program" was invented by Peter Leis (Penzberg, Germany) and Lazaros Gkatzikis (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising means for performing: receiving, from a first client, a call request comprising address information for calling at least one second client, the address information comprising a Functional Alias, wherein the Functional Alias is activated by the at least one second client; in response to receiving the call request at the apparatus, sending, to a server, a request to r...