Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Assigned Patent for Using Interactive Huddle Sessions

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 30 -- Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance, Springfield, Massachusetts, has been assigned a patent (9,852,399) developed by three co-inventors for "methods for using interactive huddle sessions and sub-applications." The co-inventors are Robert Casale, Bristol, Connecticut, Abigail O'Malley, Brighton, Massachusetts, and Kedzie Teller, Brookline, Massachusetts. The abstract states: "Systems and methods for user interaction with sub-applications in a remote huddle session are disclosed. The system architecture of the disclosed system and methods may include a plurality of components including servers, databases, client computing devices, and software modules, among others. The components may interact with each other by means of network connections. The user interaction with a plurality of sub-applications is also disclosed. An authenticated team member may select a sub-application from a list of sub-applications on a home screen that may be displayed on the user interface of a client computing device by a processor. The list of sub-applications may include recognition, morale, announcements, news feed, key protects, field metrics, dates/calendar, leader standard work, employee sentiment, and customer sentiment, among others."

The patent application was filed on June 8, 2015 (14/733,282). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=98,52,399.PN.&OS=PN/98,52,399&RS=PN/98,52,399

Written by Subhashree Samal; edited by Sudarshan Harpal.