ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,504, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Interactive user status" was invented by Anna Niess (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Noah Weiss (Austin, Texas) and Kevin Marshall (Mill Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media, methods, and systems of presenting and assigning interactive user statuses within a group-based communication system. The interactive user statuses may include links to resources and/or actuatable controls for accessing collaboration activities with other users. The interactive user statuses may be assigned manually or automatically based on user activity within the group-based c...