US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Dec. 23 for "Contextual message forwarding in a group-based communication system" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,740, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Contextual message forwarding in a group-based communication system" was invented by Bradford Parker Monroe II (Washington), John Rodgers (Vancouver, Canada), McKenna Lowry (Pleasantville, N.Y.) and Camilo Quintas Meneses (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media, methods, and systems are provided for contextual forwarding of messages in a group-based communication system. Messages may be forwarded from an origin channel to one or more destination channels. When messages are forwarded, parameters associated with the message may be evaluated to determi...