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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. 14, 2023

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2022
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Shanan Delp, San Francisco, CA (US);

Christopher Sullivan, Wellesley, MA (US);

Jaron Moore, Brooklyn, NY (US);

Kevin Marshall, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

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

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/212 (2022.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 4/12 (2009.01); H04L 51/18 (2022.01); H04L 51/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 51/212 (2022.05); H04L 51/18 (2013.01); H04L 51/56 (2022.05); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 4/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques are described for expediting a generation of a means of communication between two people associated with different organizations. A first person associated with a communication platform may submit a request to the communication platform to generate an invitation to communicate via the communication platform. The first person may provide the invitation to a second person directly or via the communication platform. Responsive to receiving an indication that the second person has accepted the invitation, the communication platform may generate the means of communication between the first person and the second person. The communication platform may update respective user interfaces to include the means of communication. The communication platform may process messages and/or data between the first person and the second person that is input on the respective user interface and sent via the means of communication.


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