ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,506, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and method for multi-channel group communications" was invented by Andres Jaan Tack (Tallinn, Estonia), Sipan Babertsyan (Tallinn, Estonia) and Mihkel Sarv (Tallinn, Estonia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving an initial communication to trigger a multi-channel group conversation associated with a set of participant endpoints comprising a first subset of participant endpoints on a first communication channel and a second subset of participant endpoints on a second communication channel, selecting a projected intermediary endpoint for e...