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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 25, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 01, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Grant C. Ritchie, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Mithilesh Kumar, San Jose, CA (US);
Austin A. Marusco, San Francisco, CA (US);
Akshay Bapat, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
John N. Meehan, Campbell, CA (US);
Elmira Petrenco, San Jose, CA (US);
Malay Mallick, San Jose, CA (US);
Sampath Sree Kumar Kolluru, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adam R. Podstawczynski, Lodz, PL;
Zhaoyuan Ye, San Jose, CA (US);
Jae Woo Chang, Cupertino, CA (US);
Marcel Van Os, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A device implementing a system for initiating a business messaging session includes at least one processors configured to receive a selection of a telephone number on a device. The at least one processor is further configured to transmit an encoded identifier corresponding to the telephone number to a server. The at least one processor is further configured to determine whether the telephone number is registered for a business messaging system based at least in part on a response received from the server. The at least one processor is further configured to provide a first display element for initiating communication with the telephone number via the business messaging system when the telephone number is registered for the business messaging system, otherwise providing a second display element for initiating communication with the telephone number via a user messaging system.