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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Jeremy Lent, San Francisco, CA (US);
Timothy Coltrell, San Francisco, CA (US);
Munnamgi S. Reddi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christopher O. Tracy, San Francisco, CA (US);
TaChung Huang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Next Card, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ; G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ; G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
A system and method are described for providing on line chat help to an applicant. An application identifier and a chat applet are inserted into a web page. The web page is sent to the applicant. The chat applet is configured to determine based on an event that the applicant could benefit from online chat and, upon such determination, to send a request to a chat server for a connection and to include the application identifier with the request.