ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,609, issued on July 29, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User-specific security credential bypass for shared device voicemail" was invented by Nick Swerdlow (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shared device voicemail box can be accessed from a device that is an unauthenticated device without a user-specific security credential. The device transmits a request to a server. The request includes a unique code based on an image. The device accesses the voicemail box based on an access grant received from the server. Using the image, a non-registered user of a telephony system can access a sec...