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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.

Patent No.:

US 10541825 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020

Filed:

Jul. 20, 2017

Method, apparatus and computer program product for generating externally shared communication channels

Applicant:

Slack Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Brenda Jin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sean Rose, San Francisco, CA (US);

Myles Grant, San Carlos, CA (US);

Elizabeth Johnston, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew King, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:

Alston & Bird LLP

Primary Examiner:

Azam M Cheema

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 16/13 (2019.01); G06F 16/27 (2019.01); G06Q 10/103 (2013.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, apparatus and computer program product for creating an externally shared communication channel in a group-based communication platform are described herein. The group-based communication platform may have a plurality of database shards. A computer-implemented method may include receiving, from a first client device associated with an initiator group identification, a shared communication channel generation query associated with the initiator group identification and a target group identification; generating, in the group-based communication platform, a shared communication channel shard; transmitting, to a second client device associated with the target group identification, a shared communication channel acceptance request; receiving a shared communication channel acceptance notification; updating, in a main database, a shard referential table based on the initiator group identification, the target group identification, and the shared communication channel identification; and transmitting a shared communication channel interface of the shared communication channel based on the shared communication channel shard.

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