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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2016
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Maczka, San Jose, CA (US);
Joonhyung Lim, San Jose, CA (US);
Brad C. Ciraulo, Redwood City, CA (US);
Damien Albert Louis Coullon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Yang Zhou, San Jose, CA (US);
Han-Tien Chang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system, apparatus, and methods are provided for queuing and resending organically generated invitations by members of a user community. During operation, the system sends a first invitation organically generated by a first member of the community to an invitee. For one or more time periods after the invitee receives the first invitation, the system performs the following steps. First, the system queues all invitations organically generated by members of the community and addressed to the invitee within the time period. Next, if the invitee is not a member of the user community when the time period expires, (1) if the queue is not empty, the system de-queues and sends at least one queued invitation to the invitee; and (2) if the queue is empty, the system resends to the invitee at least one of the invitations that was previously received by the invitee.