ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,701, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).
"System and method for automatically transitioning between carrier and IP messaging" was invented by Amit Agarwal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Peter Tan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatically transitioning between carrier and IP messaging that can include receiving a messaging request specifying a destination endpoint for a message, retrieving client status of the destination endpoint from a client application registry system, evaluating the client status of the destination endpoint for use of a client application, and dependi...