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Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 03, 2016
Applicant:

Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Pavan Desikan, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jean-Christophe E. Lilot, Mountain View, CA (US);

Dennis Troper, Los Altos, CA (US);

Gregory M. Marra, San Francisco, CA (US);

Abhishek Sethi, Milpitas, CA (US);

David M. Byttow, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/104 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing electronic messages of users in a social network. One method includes an operation for receiving attributes of a profile of a person with a person account that has started following an entity with an entity account, in the social network. Further, the person is added to one or more groups in the entity account based on the attributes. Each of the groups is associated with defined properties for adding persons to each group. Furthermore, messages, created by the entity and addressed to the one or more groups, are distributed to a stream of the person account.


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