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Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2021
Applicant:

Slack Technologies, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ilan Frank, Los Altos, CA (US);

Shanan Delp, San Francisco, CA (US);

Michael Demmer, San Francisco, CA (US);

Sri Vasamsetti, San Francisco, CA (US);

Neha Sharma, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Slack Technologies, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2021.01); H04L 12/58 (2006.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 12/08 (2013.01); G06F 21/10 (2013.01); H04L 51/12 (2013.01); H04L 63/102 (2013.01);
Abstract

Management of hosted channel membership of a communication platform is described. A request can be received from a first client of a first user, associated with a first organization, of the group-based communication platform, wherein the request is to associate a second user, associated with a second organization, with a communication channel of the first organization. An invitation to join the communication channel can be sent to a second client of the second user. In response to receiving an indication of an acceptance of the invitation, the second user can be associated with the communication channel. A request can be received from the second client to associate other user(s) associated with the second organization with the communication channel and the other user(s) can be associated with the communication channel based at least in part on permission(s) associated with the communication channel.


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