US Patent Issued to NEC Platforms on June 10 for "Telephone relay device, teleconference server, teleconference system, telephone relay method, and program" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,415, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Telephone relay device, teleconference server, teleconference system, telephone relay method, and program" was invented by Tatsuhiko Abe (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The telephone relay device (30) is communicably connected to a teleconference server that relays an audio call between communication terminals participating in a teleconference via an IP network. The telephone relay device includes: a participation request unit (32) that requests the teleconference server to permit participation in the teleconference in response to receiving...