ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,978, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automated call requests with status updates" was invented by Eyal Segalis (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel Walevski (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Yaniv Leviathan (New York) and Yossi Matias (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, relating to synthetic call status updates. In some implementations, a method includes determining, by a task manager module, that a triggering event has occurred to provide a current status of a user call request. The method may then determine, b...