US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Feb. 10 for "Automated scheduling of buffer time blocks in a user calendar" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,985, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated scheduling of buffer time blocks in a user calendar" was invented by Aleksandra Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital calendar system that automates the scheduling of buffer time blocks in a user calendar. The buffer time block is for indicating that a presence state of the user is busy during the buffer time block. The digital calendar system updates a user calendar to include an event time block associated with an event for a user of a digital calendar system, generates, based on the event time block, a b...