ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. RE50,388, issued on April 15, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"System and method for distributing communication requests based on collaboration circle membership data using machine learning" was invented by Turchese d'Andrea (Boston), Alexander DiNunzio (Cambridge, Mass.), Nancy Ng Huang (Stoneham, Mass.) and Keith Johnson (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the subject technology related to systems, methods, and a machine readable storage medium for distributing communication requests based on collaboration circle membership data using machine learning. A system may be configured to receive a plu...