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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:
Jun. 09, 2020

Filed:

Jun. 18, 2018
Applicants:

Christopher Winson Hinkle, Oakland, CA (US);

Abel Learned Lenz, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Winson Hinkle, Oakland, CA (US);

Abel Learned Lenz, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Assignee:

Racket, Inc., Oakland, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 12/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/36 (2013.01); H04L 12/1813 (2013.01); H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 65/403 (2013.01);
Abstract

Providing interactive communication between a plurality of members includes providing a routing and redistribution module that communicatively connects each of the members with each of the other members and allows the members to receive at least real-time audio data from other ones of the members. Providing the interactive communication also includes receiving content from at least one of the members, selectively distributing the content to at least some of the members in real-time, selectively storing at least some of the content, and visually indicating temporal relationships between different types of the content to at least one of the members. The content includes text messages, images, documents, graphical emojis, stickers, animated gifs, audio emojis, recorded audio, recorded video, real-time audio, and/or real-time video. Distribution of the content to a particular one of the members varies according to a listening state of the particular one of the members.


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