ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,921, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"File sharing aliasing service" was invented by Steven James Ball (Redmond, Wash.) and Eugene Lin (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A file sharing service having an aliasing service for use with a file sharing program is disclosed. The aliasing service receives a file sharing invitation from a file sender account of the file sharing program. The file sharing invitation is addressed to a first contact channel of a set of contact channels. A second contact channel is determined from the set of contact channels based on the file sharing acco...