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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Arlington, VA (US);
Guanqun Bao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Manish Sharma, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Flores, San Jose, CA (US);
Tushar Chaudhary, Mountain View, CA (US);
Gaurav Gupta, San Jose, CA (US);
Devin Blong, Penngrove, CA (US);
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Abstract
A network device provides, to a user device, an application for managing viewing and sharing of content available via an Internet service provider, and assigns a unique code for a user of the user device. The network device provides a catalog of available content items that includes toll-free data (TFD) content items with a different TFD uniform resource locator (URL) for each TFD content item in the catalog of available content items. The network device receives a user's selection, from the catalog, of a TFD content item to share, and generates a sharing URL based on a TFD URL for the selected TFD content item and the unique sharing code. The network device provides the sharing URL to the user device for sharing with other users.