US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Server initiated communication session join after endpoint status check failure" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,708, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Server initiated communication session join after endpoint status check failure" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.), Mahendra D. Sekaran (Sammamish, Wash.) and Scott Edward Van Vliet (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine-readable mediums which automatically initiate a connection to a network-based communication session using a second communication application responsive to the communication service detecting that the user is unable to join the network-base...