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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2019
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Steven James Ball, Redmond, WA (US);
Eugene Lin, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/182 (2019.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 67/06 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/176 (2019.01); G06F 16/183 (2019.01); H04L 67/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
A file sharing service having an aliasing service for use with a file sharing program is disclosed. The aliasing service receives a file sharing invitation from a file sender account of the file sharing program. The file sharing invitation is addressed to a first contact channel of a set of contact channels. A second contact channel is determined from the set of contact channels based on the file sharing account. The file sharing invitation is sent to the second contact channel, in which the first contact channel is different than the second contact channel.