US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Dec. 16 for "Cloud-based audio conference session transfer" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,786, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cloud-based audio conference session transfer" was invented by Karen Kuei Ren Hong (Los Altos, Calif.), Bin Jiang (San Jose, Calif.), Lin Sun (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yueming Zhang (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server of a system is configured to transmit a message from a first device that includes a conference identifier (ID) and a user ID to a second device to connect the second device to an ongoing audio conference bridge call without interrupting the audio conference bridge call. By providing the conference ID and the user ID, ho...