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8×8 Controller Patent Issued by U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
30 Nov, 2011
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 30, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — 8×8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), provider of innovative cloud communications and computing solutions, today announced that it has been granted United States Patent number 8,069,205 entitled, “Communications Controller and Method Therefor.” The patent issued from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on November 29, 2011. The patent is directed to Internet protocol (“IP”) telephony communications control. A user-interface device is communicatively coupled to an IP communications link and adapted to provide communications control selections to a user via a display. A plurality of IP telephony devices are coupled to the IP communications link. Selections from the display are used for providing communications control including control of communications for at least one of the plurality of IP telephony devices. The user-interface device is adaptable for use by various types of users, such as system administrators, office administrators, and individual telephony device users. In this manner, efficient and flexible user control of IP telephony applications is effected using a portable operations platform that is adaptable for use by different users at various locations. Since its establishment in 1987, 8×8 has been awarded seventy-nine (79) United States patents covering a variety of voice and video communications, signaling, processing and storage technologies.
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