US Patent Issued to Koninklijke Philips on June 10 for "Modifying functionality of a real-time communications systems" (Dutch, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,947, issued on June 10, was assigned to Koninklijke Philips N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Modifying functionality of a real-time communications systems" was invented by Karin Klabunde (Bochum, Germany), Zoran Stankovic (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Arjan Michiel Draisma (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Marcel Johannes Quist (Veldhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a method for modifying functionality of a real-time communications system. The method comprises establishing a real-time communication session (100) between a first participant (A) and a second participant (B); responsive to detecting a trigg...