ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,672, issued on May 27, was assigned to 8x8 Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Routing data communications between client-specific servers and data-center communications servers" was invented by Ali Arsanjani (Campbell, Calif.), Bryan R. Martin (Campbell, Calif.), Manu Mukerji (Campbell, Calif.), Venkat Nagaswamy (Campbell, Calif.) and Marshall Lincoln (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to context aggregation in a data communications network. According to a specific example, user-data communications between a client-specific endpoint device and the other participating endpoint device...