8x8 Continues On Innovation Trail with the Awarding of Four New Cloud Communications Patent

"Enterprises everywhere are undergoing a digital transformation that involves not only a shift to cloud-based architectures, but also requires the implementation of smarter, more flexible communications systems that help address the needs of a constantly evolving competitive environment," said Bryan Martin, Chairman and CTO of 8x8. "We've long been committed to innovating with and ahead of our customers to help them meet the evolving and complex needs of that transformation. This focus on innovation, combined with our ongoing business execution is a key reason for our leadership in the unified communications and contact center industries."The patent related to conferencing and meeting implementations with advanced features (#9,401,994) covers an innovation that will help companies manage conferencing of incoming call participants and automatically dial that participant back when there is a trigger event and seamlessly place them into a conference call.The second patent (#9,426,116) provides a system and methodology for a Domain Name System (DNS) that helps maintain consistency of DNS records between multiple master servers in the event of a connection failure. The technology will also help the master DNS server take the appropriate actions to update and/or recover DNS data when connections are restored.