US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on July 29 for "Rich communication services in multi-carrier environments" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,885, issued on July 29, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Rich communication services in multi-carrier environments" was invented by Sheraz Farooq Dar (Bellevue, Wash.), Zakir Hussain Syed (Bellevue, Wash.) and Sudhanshu Pandey (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open group chat (OGC) session is initiated between mobile devices registered to different telecommunications networks by first verifying whether each implicated network has a network-to-network interface (NNI) agreement with each other network. A first mobile device receives a request to initiate an OGC session between the first mobile devi...