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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2017
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vinodh Jayaram, Fremont, CA (US);

Jeremy Olivier Barre, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew Cairns Moxon, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/08 (2013.01); H04L 51/16 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for generating messages to entities referenced in a messaging thread are described. In one embodiment, a method may receive a partial entity-reference invocation in a message thread; suggest one or more entity-reference invocations based on the partial entity-reference invocation; receive a user selection of one of the suggested entity-reference invocations; generate a message to the entity referenced in the selected entity-reference invocation; and send the message to the entity via a messaging system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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