ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,924, issued on June 24, was assigned to TEXTNOW INC. (Waterloo, Canada).
"System and method for improved call handling" was invented by J. David Hagedorn (St Clements, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes: receiving, from a server, a call notification, the call notification including a call identifier for a call; providing a call alert to a user of the computing device; sending, to the server, a message including a registration request and the call identifier; receiving, from the server, handling parameters for handling the call; and handling the call according to the handling parameters."
The patent was ...