Slack Technologies, Inc.

Salesforce, Inc.

Eric Vierhaus

Ilan Frank

Leah Jones

Samantha Stoller

Keith McKinley Adams

Myles Grant

Callum Henderson-Begg

Maude Lemaire

Yongxing Deng

Daniel Stewart Butterfield

Todd Lindsay Wirth

April Underwood

Gregory Pelly

Matthew Mullen

Todd Wirth

The disclosure generally relates to an enterprise group-based communication system. Group-based communication channels may be created and access by client devices associated with users within the enterprise group-based communication system that have various identifiers associated therewith.

Method, apparatus, and computer program product for authorizing and authenticating user communication within an enterprise group-based communication platform

Various embodiments are directed to group-based data storage systems configured for maintaining data exchanged between client devices within channel-specific shards each corresponding with one or more group-identifiers to provide group-based access to those channel-specific shards and for applying group-specific policies for data stored within those channel-specific shards. Membership of particular users within particular groups and within particular channels may be monitored such that access to particular channel shards may be controlled based on group-memberships of the users, and access to data stored within particular channel shards may be controlled based on channel-memberships of the users.

Data storage architecture for an enterprise communication system

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San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Eric Vierhaus