Twitter, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Slack Technologies, Inc.

Buster Benson

Adam M Singer

William Morgan

Jeremy Gordon

Meagan Gamache

Ian Chan

Brian Ellin

Reeve Thompson

Grant Monroe

Russell D'Sa

Christopher Sullivan

Zachary Taylor

Diogenes Brito

Paul Matthew Jennings

Brian Guarraci

Lucas Alonso-Martinez

Luke Alonso

Zhigang Chen

Kefan Xie

Benjamin William Scholey Redman

Zhijang Chen

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products that provide for an improved, more efficient, and more stable system of networked computing devices. The embodiments disclose an apparatus and system that enable client devices to selectively grant to third party applications permissions to access group-based communication objects of a group-based communication system. The apparatus and system further enable client devices to selectively grant to third party applications permissions to take specific actions with regards to the group-based communication objects within the system. To accomplish the improvements, the disclosed systems, apparatuses, and computing devices maintain a record of the permissions granted to third party applications in a permissions table stored in a computer storage device. The permissions table may be modified to expand the permissions granted to the third party application without requiring a new authentication process that issues a new authenticating token. Further, third party applications are installed at a group level and not at a user level within the system, which increases system stability and efficiency.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for selectively granting permissions to group-based objects in a group-based communication system

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for generating a third-party resource usage map in a group based communication system, where the third-party resource usage map comprises a plurality of third party resource usage records and each third-party resource usage record comprises a user identifier, a third-party resource provider identifier, and a third-party resource access token.

System, method, and apparatus for generating a third-party resource usage map in a group based communication system

System, method, and apparatus for generating a third party resource usage map in a group based communication system

A method for using an in-message application. The method includes: receiving a broadcast message; identifying, in the broadcast message, a reference to an external data provider; obtaining an identifier of the in-message application from the external data provider; using the identifier to identify a set of components of the in-message application, where placement of the set of components is defined by a visual structure of the in-message application, and where each of the set of components is a user interface (UI) element; associating data obtained from the external data provider with a component of the set of components; and serving the broadcast message and the data to a consumer client, where the consumer client renders the in-message application based on the visual structure.

Rendering messages having an in-message application

Various embodiments disclose an in-message application facilitating the use of third-party application programming interfaces (APIs). In particular, these in-message applications (referred to as 'cards') may be designed by a developer to access third-party API functionality. A user may then create a message referencing, e.g., a web address associated with the developer's card. The system may receive the user's message and recognize the reference. The system may then distribute an instantiation of the card to various recipients, the instantiation including elements generated using, or providing the user access to, the third party functionality.

Generating messages having in-message applications

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for generating a third party resource usage map in a group based communication system, where the third party resource usage map comprises a plurality of third party resource usage records and each third party resource usage record comprises a user identifier, a third party resource provider identifier, and a third party resource access token.

In-message applications in a messaging platform

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Buster Benson