US Patent Issued to Zoom Communications on Jan. 27 for "Instant replay for video conferences" (California, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,709, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Instant replay for video conferences" was invented by Brendan James Ittelson (San Jose, Calif.) and Timothy Slagle (Boiling Springs, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for instant replay in virtual meetings are disclosed. In an example, a method involves receiving, by a virtual conference provider from a first client device of a set of client devices connected to a virtual meeting, a request for a replay segment from a second client device. The method further involves transmitting the request for the replay segment to the second client d...