8x8 Issued New Conferencing and Meeting Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
April 15 2015 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT), a leading provider of cloud-based
unified communications and contact center solutions, today
announced that it has been awarded a new patent related to its
conferencing technologies.
On April 14, 2015, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued
United States Patent number 9,008,107 entitled “Conferencing and
Meeting Implementations with Advanced Features.”
The new patent relates to, among other things, a method for
operating an audio conference system that includes at least one
logic circuit and a caller interface that involves receiving
incoming telephony calls at the caller interface. A logic circuit
is used to authenticate incoming telephony calls. Menu options are
provided to authenticated incoming telephony calls. In response to
a selection of the menu options, an incoming telephony call is
prompted to select a callback number. The logic circuit monitors
for a trigger event. A participant is called back using the
selected call back number in response to detecting the trigger
event. The called-back participant is then placed into a
conference.
Since its establishment, 8x8 has been awarded one-hundred four
(104) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video
communications, signaling, processing and storage technologies.
About 8x8, Inc.
8x8, Inc. (NASDAQ:EGHT) is the trusted provider of secure and
reliable cloud-based unified
communications and virtual contact center solutions to
more than 40,000 businesses operating in over 40 countries across
six continents. 8x8's out-of-the-box cloud solutions replace
traditional on-premise PBX hardware and software-based systems with
a flexible and scalable Software as a Service (SaaS) alternative,
encompassing cloud business phone service, contact center
solutions, and web conferencing. For additional information,
visit www.8x8.com, or www.8x8.com/UK or connect with
8x8 on Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
8x8, Inc.Tim Polakowski, 669-200-6638tim.polakowski@8x8.com
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