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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. 25, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

John Costello, Claregalway, IE;

Andrew Henderson, Spiddal, IE;

Robert Headon, Galway, IE;

Assignee:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/12 (2013.01); H04L 12/1813 (2013.01); H04L 12/1822 (2013.01); H04L 41/5093 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 63/065 (2013.01); H04L 63/105 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a request to join an electronic chat room is received from a requester. A selection of an access control level for the requester is received via a user interface in order to grant the requester access to the electronic chat room according to a condition for granting access. The user interface is used to assign a selected access control level to the requester, thereupon granting access to the requester. The requester's access to content available in the electronic chat room being limited based on the selected access control level. Related methods, apparatus, and systems are also described.


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