US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for multimedia multipoint real-time conferencing allowing real-time bandwidth management and prioritized media distribution" (California, Maine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,476, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for multimedia multipoint real-time conferencing allowing real-time bandwidth management and prioritized media distribution" was invented by Barry L. Spencer (Falmouth, Maine) and Jeremy Egenberger (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed for multimedia multipoint real-time conferencing that includes a communication module to receive a request to share media content in a virtual room setting. The content may include an audio, a video, a text, or a HyperText Markup Language (HTML) code referencing a third-party reso...