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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:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 25, 2017
Applicant:

The Fin Exploration Company, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Nicole DeVillers, Daly City, CA (US);

John Graham, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew Kortina, San Francisco, CA (US);

Samuel Lessin, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

The Fin Exploration Company, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/16 (2013.01); G06Q 10/105 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a collective address book system. One of the methods includes: receiving, at the system, a request from a user regarding a topic; selecting automatically, at the system, a potential referrer, the potential referrer selection being based on the likelihood that the potential referrer will respond to the user's request; and communicating automatically with the potential referrer regarding the user's request without the system indicating to the user that the potential referrer has been contacted.


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