8x8 Issued New Communications Patent by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
November 05 2014 - 8:15AM
Business Wire
8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), a provider of cloud-based unified
communications, contact center and collaboration services, today
announced that it has been awarded a new patent related to its
contact center technologies.
On November 4, 2014, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued
United States Patent number 8,879,540 entitled, “Systems, Methods,
Devices and Arrangements for Emergency Call Services.”
The new patent relates to, among other things, determining the
location of an emergency call using a location database populated
from the nodes of data transmission routes from a plurality of
endpoint devices. In June 2004, 8x8 became the first major
broadband Internet telephone service provider to offer E911 service
to customers. The company has continued to create advancements in
this field by inventing new emergency calling technologies that
work with its nomadic business endpoints and mobile service
applications.
Since its establishment, 8x8 has been awarded ninety-seven (97)
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 small, midsize and distributed enterprise
organizations 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, 408-883-8434tim.polakowski@8x8.com
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