US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Jan. 27 for "Integrating a communication platform into a third-party platform" (Oregon, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,788, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Integrating a communication platform into a third-party platform" was invented by Farzad Khosrowshahi (Weehawken, N.J.) and Steven Walling (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integration of a group-based communication platform into a third-party application is described. In an example, an affordance associated with the group-based communication platform can be presented via a user interface of the third-party application. Based at least in part on detecting an input associated with the affordance, at least the message can be retrieved from the group-...