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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2010
Joseph F. Khouri, San Jose, CA (US);
Raghurama Bhat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ashish S. Chirputkar, Fremont, CA (US);
Muralidhar K. Sitaram, Los Altos, CA (US);
Keith Griffin, Oranmore, IE;
James P. Beno, Oakland, CA (US);
Joseph F. Khouri, San Jose, CA (US);
Raghurama Bhat, Cupertino, CA (US);
Ashish S. Chirputkar, Fremont, CA (US);
Muralidhar K. Sitaram, Los Altos, CA (US);
Keith Griffin, Oranmore, IE;
James P. Beno, Oakland, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes generating a hover card associated with an entity in response to a user of a software application hovering a pointer over a reference to the entity within a graphical user interface (GUI) presented to the user by the software application. The hover card includes a photograph or icon representing the entity, a name of the entity, and a plurality of unified communications (UC) icons that are each configured to attempt to establish a particular type of communication session between the user and the entity. The method further includes presenting the hover card to the first user proximate to the pointer.