ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,855, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Split-mode conference access" was invented by Karen Kuei Ren Hong (Los Altos, Calif.), Haibing Xu (Milpitas, Calif.), Dan Yang (San Jose, Calif.) and Xudong Zhang (Hefei, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for one-touch split-mode conference access includes a server that transmits a first message associated with a conference with a client. A VOIP device displays a notification based on the first message. The VOIP device transmits a second message to transfer an audio component of the conference to the VOIP device. The audio component of the...