Facebook, Inc.

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Viswanath Poosala

Philip Lewis Bohannon

Andrew Yaoshu Song

Andrew Cairns Moxon

Huan Yan Wang

Vinodh Jayaram

Debra Vaughn Hester

Christopher Andrew Daniels

Maksim Kamenetsky

Ali Yazdan Panah

Vindoh Jayaram

Techniques for group message thread link administration are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client front-end component operative to receive a join invitation command associated with a group message thread from an administrator client device, the group message thread associated with a message thread identifier, the message thread identifier identifying the group message thread on a messaging system; and send a join invitation link to the administrator client device; and a group management component operative to generate a join invitation link in response to the join invitation command, the join invitation link comprising a thread invitation identifier, wherein the thread invitation identifier is a hash of the message thread identifier. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for group message thread link administration

Some embodiments include an internet service provider (ISP) system capable of delegating network policy configuration tasks to ISP franchisee accounts. For example, the ISP system can establish, via a backhaul channel, a network tunnel from an access point hosting a local area network (LAN) to a gateway server connected to a wide area network (WAN). The ISP system can authenticate an ISP franchisee account operating a mobile device. The ISP franchisee account can configure, from the mobile device, a network usage policy associated with using the network tunnel, the gateway server, and/or application services available through the gateway server. The ISP system can authenticate a subscriber account operating a subscriber device to connect with the WAN from the LAN. The ISP system can enforce, at the gateway server, the network usage policy when the customer device is using the access point to access the WAN through the gateway server.

Internet service provider management platform

Some embodiments include a method of operating an avatar server. The method can include implementing an application service avatar in an avatar server that has at least an intermittent network access to an application service server for providing an application service to client applications. The avatar server can establish a service group by maintaining profiles of one or more end-user devices connected to the avatar server to access the application service. The avatar server can provide a localized application service by emulating at least a subset of functionalities provided by the application service to the end-user devices, for example, by locally processing, at least partially, a service request from at least one of the end-user devices at the avatar server. The avatar server can asynchronously communicate with the application service server to complete the service request.

Application service delivery through an application service avatar

Techniques for securing the delivery of an audio message on a device are described. A method may include presenting a visual representation associated with an audio file in a user interface view of an application executing on a first mobile device and receiving a control directive to select the visual representation. The method may include retrieving, from a data store, an indicator of the audio file associated with the selected visual representation; constructing, by the application, a first message comprising a first field to hold an electronic message address for a recipient and a second field to hold the indicator of the audio file associated with the selected visual representation; and sending the first message to the electronic message address of the recipient for delivery to a destination second mobile device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Viswanath Poosala