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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2023
Applicant:
Whatsapp Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Inventor:
Kanak Behari Agarwal, Austin, TX (US);
Assignee:
WhatsApp LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/62 (2013.01); G06Q 50/00 (2024.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/6245 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and storage media for obscuring a user identifier on a social media platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: register a client device based on a user identifier; generate an internal supplemental identifier associated with the user identifier; receive a confirmation of the SMS message from the client device based on the user identifier; implement the internal supplemental identifier between client-side transactions and server-side transactions; and generate a display name associated with the internal supplemental identifier.