ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,251, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Zoom Video Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"User initiated notifications for chat sections" was invented by Amanda Naomi Etheridge (Austin, Texas), Sally Lu (Los Angeles) and Archil Vardidze (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods and systems for providing notifications of unread messages is provided. A client device detects an input action proximate to a folder created by a recipient user account. The folder includes one or more online chats. The one or more online chats includes at least one unread message. The client device provides a notification relating to th...