ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,756, issued on July 29, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Contextual workflow buttons" was invented by Michael Brevoort (Littleton, Colo.), Brad Harris (Castle Rock, Colo.) and Melissa Aubrie Chan (Hayward, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media, methods, and systems are provided for contextual automation within a group-based communication system using buttons persisted within a virtual space of the group-based communication system. The buttons are configured to initiate one or more workflows that perform one or more external or internal operations contextually based on one or more contextual parameters associate...