US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Dec. 2 for "Conference event alerting of change in discussion" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,653, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Conference event alerting of change in discussion" was invented by Vi Dinh Chau (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conference participant is alerted as to an event during a conference responsive to a determination that a focus of the conference participant is other than on the conference. During the conference, an event associated with the conference participant is detected based on a real-time transcription of the conference. For example, the event may relate to a topic relevant to the conference participant or a request associated with a name...