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Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Whatsapp Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alan Kao, San Jose, CA (US);

Jamshid Mahdavi, San Jose, CA (US);

Ehren Andrew Kret, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

WHATSAPP LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/58 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/04 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for media endpoint configuration are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging server component operative to receive a media message addressed to a recipient user account, the media message comprising a media identifier for a media item; and send the media message to a recipient client device associated with the recipient user account; and a media management component operative to send a media endpoint list to a recipient client device, the media endpoint list operative to configure the recipient client device to retrieve the media item by identifying the media item with the media identifier to a media endpoint determined based on the media endpoint list. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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