US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 23 for "Methods and apparatuses for determining a user status avatar for rendering within a group-based communication interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,260, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods and apparatuses for determining a user status avatar for rendering within a group-based communication interface" was invented by Roland Schemers (Woodside, Calif.), James McPhail (Alameda, Calif.), Lydia Han (San Francisco) and San Oo (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for programmatically determining a user status avatar that is configured for transmitting as renderable within a group-based communication interface of a group-based com...