US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 21 for "Communications management leveraging status information from shared resources" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,093, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Communications management leveraging status information from shared resources" was invented by Amer Aref Hassan (Kirkland, Wash.), Gareth L. E. Bridges (Redmond, Wash.) and Michael J. Davis (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to managing user presence in a unified communications system. A method is provided where a computing device establishes a wireless connection with a peripheral device. The computing device has a native dialer application and a unified communications client (UCC) application. A communication s...