Apple Inc.

Akshay Bapat

Marcel Van Os

Jae Woo Chang

Grant Ritchie

Mithilesh Kumar

Austin Marusco

John N Meehan

Sampath Sree Kumar Kolluru

Elmira Petrenco

Zhaoyuan Ye

Malay Mallick

Adam R Podstawczynski

Austin A Marusco

A device implementing a system for initiating a business messaging session includes at least one processors configured to receive a selection of a telephone number on a device. The at least one processor is further configured to transmit an encoded identifier corresponding to the telephone number to a server. The at least one processor is further configured to determine whether the telephone number is registered for a business messaging system based at least in part on a response received from the server. The at least one processor is further configured to provide a first display element for initiating communication with the telephone number via the business messaging system when the telephone number is registered for the business messaging system, otherwise providing a second display element for initiating communication with the telephone number via a user messaging system.

Initiating a business messaging session

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Sunnyvale, CA, United States of America

Akshay Bapat