US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Communication session join modes and auto join" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,919, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Communication session join modes and auto join" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.) and Mahendra D. Sekaran (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, machine-readable mediums, devices, and systems for joining a participant to a meeting in a modified join mode. A join mode comprises one or more configurable operational parameters within an network-based communication service that specifies the manner in which a participant is integrated into a network-based real-time interactive communication session such as a net...