ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,917, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Chat bridging in video conferences" was invented by Sam Kokajko (Round Rock, Texas) and Jonathan Kokotajlo (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for bridging messaging channels of virtual conferences are disclosed. In an example, a method involves receiving, from a first client participating as a first virtual participant in a first virtual meeting of a set of virtual meetings hosted by a virtual conference provider. The method further involves identifying, in the first messaging channel, the message for cross-posting. The method...