US Patent Issued to Twilio on May 6 for "System and method for determining and communicating presence information" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,674, issued on May 6, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for determining and communicating presence information" was invented by Jeff Lawson (San Francisco), Evan Cooke (San Francisco), Robert J. Simutis (San Francisco), Patrick Malatack (San Francisco) and Kyle Conroy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for communicating presence information that can include at a first server of a communication platform, receiving an authorization token of a first client application; verifying at least one permission associated with the authorization token; registering a presence status of t...