News : 8x8 Receives Three New Cloud Communications Patents

#contactcenterworld, @8x8
San Jose, CA, USA, July 12, 2016 -- 8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq:EGHT), a provider of global Enterprise Communications as a Service (ECaaS), announced that it has been awarded three new patents, bringing 8x8's total number of patents to 121. These three innovations relate to networked contact centers, data storage and conferencing, enabling businesses to take full advantage of the power of the cloud for their communications needs.

The new patents issued by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) are:

- United States Patent number 9,307,088 entitled "Networked Contact Center" was awarded on April 5, 2016 and discusses among other things, a networked contact center with several platforms to host multiple tenants.
- United States Patent number 9,306,985 entitled "User Configurable Data Storage" was awarded on April 5, 2016 and covers how a Voice over IP (VoIP) server can route calls and store data from a plurality of telecommunications devices.
- United States Patent number 9,338,221 entitled "Systems and Methods for Distributed Conferencing" was awarded on May 10, 2016 and provides conference meeting content to remote participants in a distributed manner.

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Posted by Veronica Silva Cusi, news correspondent
Source: 8x8, Inc.

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8x8, Inc. (Nasdaq: EGHT) leverages its patented software technologies to deliver high quality voice solutions with integrated messaging and video to businesses of any size with employees in any location on a wide variety of business telephony, web and mobile platforms. 8x8 also offers managed hosting and cloud-based computing services.

Published: Wednesday, July 13, 2016

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