ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,994, issued on March 31, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Real-time user screening of messages within a communication platform" was invented by Jeffrey Allen Eagan (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide for real-time user screening of messages within a communication platform. In one embodiment, the system presents, to a first user, a notification of an incoming call from a second user and options for managing the call; receives, from the first client device, a selection of an option to screen the call; in response to the first user selecting to screen the call, presen...