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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:
Jul. 17, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 05, 2005
Irvin Henderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Naveen D. Sanjeeva, Milpitas, CA (US);
Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Irvin Henderson, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Naveen D. Sanjeeva, Milpitas, CA (US);
Thyagarajapuram S. Ramakrishnan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Enabling a user of a device, such as a wired or wireless device, that is associated with a telephone number to communicate text messages with another user of another device that is not associated with a telephone number (or the telephone number is unknown to the sender). Although the other user's telephone number is not known or does not exist, the other user is associated with a user identifier for a user community that is assigned a Common Short Code (CSC). The text message includes a source telephone number (sender/user's device telephone number) and a destination number (the CSC for the other user/recipient's user community). The content of the text message includes a user identifier, where the identifier indicates the particular other user within the user community. A server employs the CSC to determine the user community and the identifier to determine the particular user in the determined community that is the intended recipient of the text message.