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Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2013
Applicant:

Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Akhil Wable, San Francisco, CA (US);

Aditya Agarwal, San Francisco, CA (US);

Ruchi Sanghvi, San Francisco, CA (US);

Joshua Jenkins, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/403 (2013.01); H04L 51/32 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01);
Abstract

A social networking system that enables a member of social networking site to search for other members whose group profiles satisfy one or more search criteria. The system further enables the member to select one or more of the members whose profile satisfies the search criteria, and enables a communication between the member and the selected members. Thus, the member may send a communication to all members whose profiles satisfy the search criteria, or to a subset of those members whose profiles satisfy the search criteria. The communication may be an e-mail, an invitation, a chat message, a private positing on a public message board, a text message or any other suitable type of communication.


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