ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,147, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Forwarding session initiation messages" was invented by Anish Kavia (Slough, Great Britain), Salem Amin Al-Damluji (Chorleywood, Great Britain) and Janaka Ranabahu (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second device (e.g., a session border controller (SBC) receives, from a first device (e.g., a video teleconference server) of an IP communication network, an invitation (e.g., a session initiation protocol (SIP) message) to create a session between the first device and a third device (e.g., a computer of a person participating in the teleco...