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US 11611649
Method and system for communication
Current assignee: Messageloud Inc
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US11611649B2
Title: Method and system for communication
Patent number: US11611649B2
Application number: US17/699,581
Inventor: Garin Toren
Current/Original Assignee (as listed): Messageloud Inc (written "MessageLoud Inc" in the reassignment entries; also "messageLOUD LLC" listed as assignor)
Prior art date / Priority date (assumed): 2014-11-21
Filing date: 2022-03-21
Publication date (grant): 2023-03-21
Earlier publication: US20220210259A1 (2022-06-30)
Status: Active (per source; legal status stated as an assumption, not a legal conclusion)
Anticipated expiration: 2035-09-25
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US11611649](/patent/US11611649)/en
Purpose and plain-language scope (from supplied text only):
The source excerpt supplies the bibliographic front page, classification data, and prior-art keywords, but not the claims or a written description. Accordingly, scope can only be inferred at a high level from those fields. The prior-art keywords — "user," "email," "message," "text message," and "application" — indicate subject matter concerning handling of user messages, including text messages and email, via an application.
The classifications place the disclosure in telephonic/mobile-device user-interface territory: H04M1/60 and H04M1/6041–H04M1/6083 (handsfree use, portable phones adapted for handsfree use, and handsfree use in a vehicle by interfacing with the vehicle audio system), H04M1/7243 (mobile-phone interfaces with interactive means for internal management of messages), and G06F3/0481, G06F3/04817, and G06F3/0482 (graphical user interface interaction, icons, and lists of selectable items). Read together, these suggest a mobile application presenting and letting a user interact with messages — plausibly in a handsfree or in-vehicle listening context — but the excerpt does not state that as the invention.
What the excerpt does not establish:
It provides no claims, independent or dependent, and no detailed description or embodiments; therefore no element of the claimed invention, its novelty, or its breadth can be confirmed. Litigation, ownership transfers, validity, and prior art are outside this overview per instruction and are not assessed. The "Family has litigation" and Darts-ip litigation links appearing on the page are noted only as page content, not analyzed.
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