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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2007
Joseph F. Karam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph F. Karam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for initiating communication between two users among several users while at least one of the two users is browsing a web page. User information is collected about each user among the several users. Page information is collected about what web page each user among the several users is browsing. A portion of the user information and page information for a first user and a second user is shared between the first user and the second user when a predetermined criterion is met, and request by the first user to initiate communication with the second user is processed.